USN-5761-2: ca-certificates update

Publication date

6 December 2022

Overview

A distrusted certificate authority has been removed from ca-certificates.


Packages

Details

USN-5761-1 updated ca-certificates. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

Due to security concerns, the TrustCor certificate authority has been
marked as distrusted in Mozilla's root store. This update removes the
TrustCor CA certificates from the ca-certificates package.

USN-5761-1 updated ca-certificates. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

Due to security concerns, the TrustCor certificate authority has been
marked as distrusted in Mozilla's root store. This update removes the
TrustCor CA certificates from the ca-certificates package.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
16.04 xenial ca-certificates –  20211016~16.04.1~esm2  
14.04 trusty ca-certificates –  20211016~14.04.1~esm1  

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