QID 352850

Date Published: 2021-10-06

QID 352850: Amazon Linux Security Advisory for ca-certificates: ALAS-2021-1536

Update of ca-certificates to version 2018.2.22-65.1.24.amzn1 addresses the expiring identtrust dst root ca x3, which affected some let's encrypt tls certificates.
The effect of the expiring certificate would be an inability of openssl to validate impacted certificates issued by let's encrypt.
Impacted customers may have experienced connection or certificate errors when attempting to connect to certain websites or apis that use let's encrypt certificates.

Note: The preceding description block is extracted directly from the security advisory. Using automation, we have attempted to clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; allows unauthorized modification; allows disruption of service.

CVSS V3 rated as Medium - 4.2 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5.4 severity.

Solution

Please refer to Amazon advisory: ALAS-2021-1536 for affected packages and patching details, or update with your package manager.

Vendor References

ALAS-2021-1536 - alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2021-1536.html

CVEs related to QID 352850

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Component	Link
ALAS-2021-1536	Amazon Linux		alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2021-1536.html

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