Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-2607
Advisory Release Date: 2024-08-01 03:01 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-08-13 09:45 Pacific
Certifi is a curated collection of Root Certificates for validating the trustworthiness of SSL certificates while verifying the identity of TLS hosts. Certifi starting in 2021.05.30 and prior to 2024.07.4 recognized root certificates from `GLOBALTRUST`. Certifi 2024.07.04 removes root certificates from `GLOBALTRUST` from the root store. These are in the process of being removed from Mozilla's trust store. `GLOBALTRUST`'s root certificates are being removed pursuant to an investigation which identified "long-running and unresolved compliance issues." (CVE-2024-39689)
Affected Packages:
ca-certificates
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update ca-certificates to update your system.
noarch:
ca-certificates-2023.2.68-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch
src:
ca-certificates-2023.2.68-1.amzn2.0.1.src