Synopsis

ca-certificates enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Updated ca-certificates packages that add various enhancements are now available
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The ca-certificates package contains a set of CA certificates chosen by the
Mozilla Foundation for use with the Internet Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).

The ca-certificates package has been upgraded to upstream version 1.94 as
released with NSS version 3.15, which provides an updated set of recent
Certificate Authorities according to the Mozilla CA Certificate Policy. Also,
the update-ca-trust configuration management tool has been added. (BZ#973727,
BZ#1002646)

This update also adds the following enhancement:

• This update provides Shared System Certificate Authority storage, a
  system-wide trust storage for configuration data, required as an input for
  certificate trust decisions. This is a functionally compatible replacement for
  classic Certificate Authority configuration files and for the libnssckbi NSS
  trust module. This feature must be explicitly enabled by an administrator. Refer
  to the update-ca-trust man page in the ca-certificates package for a more
  detailed description of the feature. (BZ#544376)
  

Users of ca-certificates are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
add these enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 973727 - Update to newer snapshot of the Mozilla root CA list in the ca-certificate rpm package

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
ca-certificates-2013.1.94-65.0.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: deee7fdfa6e0895fba4f82991dd273dbf3bf0e2ae728ed23a74b4c3a762d3e67
x86_64
ca-certificates-2013.1.94-65.0.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: ba6b31ce259e465b2a7ff1c67ce084faedea77ea1eed6aa920d9bae0018f0e50
i386
ca-certificates-2013.1.94-65.0.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: ba6b31ce259e465b2a7ff1c67ce084faedea77ea1eed6aa920d9bae0018f0e50

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
ca-certificates-2013.1.94-65.0.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: deee7fdfa6e0895fba4f82991dd273dbf3bf0e2ae728ed23a74b4c3a762d3e67
x86_64
ca-certificates-2013.1.94-65.0.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: ba6b31ce259e465b2a7ff1c67ce084faedea77ea1eed6aa920d9bae0018f0e50
i386
ca-certificates-2013.1.94-65.0.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: ba6b31ce259e465b2a7ff1c67ce084faedea77ea1eed6aa920d9bae0018f0e50

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
ca-certificates-2013.1.94-65.0.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: deee7fdfa6e0895fba4f82991dd273dbf3bf0e2ae728ed23a74b4c3a762d3e67
x86_64
ca-certificates-2013.1.94-65.0.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: ba6b31ce259e465b2a7ff1c67ce084faedea77ea1eed6aa920d9bae0018f0e50
i386
ca-certificates-2013.1.94-65.0.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: ba6b31ce259e465b2a7ff1c67ce084faedea77ea1eed6aa920d9bae0018f0e50

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6

SRPM
ca-certificates-2013.1.94-65.0.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: deee7fdfa6e0895fba4f82991dd273dbf3bf0e2ae728ed23a74b4c3a762d3e67
s390x
ca-certificates-2013.1.94-65.0.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: ba6b31ce259e465b2a7ff1c67ce084faedea77ea1eed6aa920d9bae0018f0e50

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
ca-certificates-2013.1.94-65.0.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: deee7fdfa6e0895fba4f82991dd273dbf3bf0e2ae728ed23a74b4c3a762d3e67
ppc64
ca-certificates-2013.1.94-65.0.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: ba6b31ce259e465b2a7ff1c67ce084faedea77ea1eed6aa920d9bae0018f0e50

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6

SRPM
ca-certificates-2013.1.94-65.0.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: deee7fdfa6e0895fba4f82991dd273dbf3bf0e2ae728ed23a74b4c3a762d3e67
x86_64
ca-certificates-2013.1.94-65.0.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: ba6b31ce259e465b2a7ff1c67ce084faedea77ea1eed6aa920d9bae0018f0e50

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6

SRPM
ca-certificates-2013.1.94-65.0.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: deee7fdfa6e0895fba4f82991dd273dbf3bf0e2ae728ed23a74b4c3a762d3e67
x86_64
ca-certificates-2013.1.94-65.0.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: ba6b31ce259e465b2a7ff1c67ce084faedea77ea1eed6aa920d9bae0018f0e50
i386
ca-certificates-2013.1.94-65.0.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: ba6b31ce259e465b2a7ff1c67ce084faedea77ea1eed6aa920d9bae0018f0e50