Fraudulent Digital Certificates

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2011-34, we have filed bz 734316:
  • Google Chrome user aliboencountered an active "man in the middle" (MITM) attack on secure SSLconnections to Google servers. The fraudulent certificate was mis-issued byDigiNotar, a Dutch Certificate Authority. DigiNotar has reported evidencethat other fraudulent certificates were issued and in active use but the fullextent of the compromise is not known.  For the protection of our users Mozilla has removed the DigiNotar rootcertificate. Sites using certificates issued by DigiNotar will need toseek another certificate vendor. Mozilla thanks Google, Inc. for reporting this issue to us. We alsothank Marien Zwart (Mozilla Localization), Ot van Daalen (Bits of Freedom),and Erik de Jong (GovCERT) for their help.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Mozilla applications

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