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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.66769
Category:Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:Mandriva Security Advisory MDVSA-2010:029 (rootcerts)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:
The remote host is missing an update to rootcerts
announced via advisory MDVSA-2010:029.

The rootcerts package was added in Mandriva in 2005 and was meant
to be updated when nessesary. The provided rootcerts packages has
been upgraded using the latest certdata.txt file from the mozilla
cvs repository, as of 2009/12/03.

In Mandriva a number of additional CA root certificates has been
added such as ICP-Brasil (Brazil government CA), cacert.org, IGC/A CA
(French government CA). The IGC/A CA one was recently added upstream
in the mozilla certdata.txt file.

The rootcerts package provides the /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
file which most sofwares in Mandriva, and where appliable is sharing
such as KDE, curl, pidgin, neon, and more.

The mozilla nss library has consequently been rebuilt to pickup these
changes and are also being provided.

Affected: 2008.0, 2009.0, 2009.1, 2010.0, Enterprise Server 5.0

Solution:
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2010:029

Risk factor : High

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