USN-2913-1: ca-certificates update

The ca-certificates package contained outdated CA certificates. This update refreshes the included certificates to those contained in the 20160104 package, including the removal of the SPI CA and CA certificates with 1024-bit RSA keys...

Scientific Linux Security Update : nss on SL6.x, SL7.x i386/x86_64 (20150625) (Logjam)

A flaw was found in the way the TLS protocol composes the Diffie-Hellman DH key exchange. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to force the use of weak 512 bit export-grade keys during the key exchange, allowing them do decrypt all traffic. CVE-2015-4000 Note: This update forces the...

Unjam the logjam

Security Unjam the logjam Share June 9th, 2015 When a browser and website communicate over a secure connection, they encrypt and decrypt the data using a shared symmetric encryption key; the same key is used for encryption and decryption. In order for the browser and server to make sure they use...

openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox (openSUSE-SU-2014:1099-1)

Mozilla Firefox was updated to Firefox 32 fixing security issues and bugs. Security issues fixed: MFSA 2014-72 / CVE-2014-1567: Security researcher regenrecht reported, via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative, a use-after-free during text layout when interacting with the setting of text direction...

More 1024-Bit Certificates to Be Deprecated in Firefox

When Mozilla released Firefox 32 last week, the company removed several root certificates from the trust store for the browser. The move wasn’t because the certificates were fraudulent or the CAs that issued them were compromised, but because the certificates use 1024-bit keys. This is the first...

Mozilla 1024-Bit Deprecation Leaves 107,000 Sites Untrusted

When Firefox 32 shipped this week, Mozilla also officially ended its support of 1024-bit certificate authority certificates in its trusted store. While it still takes a considerable amount of resources to factor and crack a 1024-bit RSA key, important organizations such as NIST have been advising...

Mozilla NSS NULL Character CA SSL Certificate Validation Security Bypass Vulnerability

No description provided by source. Private-Key: 1024 bit modulus: 00:cf:4d:17:42:00:8d:0c:41:95:31:8c:40:30:bc: 5e:42:b6:28:09:75:2f:19:61:d9:ab:4d:ec:f3:44: c4:1c:01:95:6f:27:eb:70:07:98:4f:1e:05:d0:f3: 6c:49:45:e6:de:48:7a:59:f0:c2:93:6a:37:9c:02: 72:4f:bd:14:36:26:a1:70:97:d4:fe:4b:24:e8:cd:...