Important: ca-certificates

Issue Overview:

Certifi is a curated collection of Root Certificates for validating the trustworthiness of SSL certificates while verifying the identity of TLS hosts. Certifi 2022.12.07 removes root certificates from “TrustCor” from the root store. These are in the process of being removed from Mozilla’s trust store. TrustCor’s root certificates are being removed pursuant to an investigation prompted by media reporting that TrustCor’s ownership also operated a business that produced spyware. Conclusions of Mozilla’s investigation can be found in the linked google group discussion. (CVE-2022-23491)

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.

New Packages:

noarch:  
    ca-certificates-2021.2.50-72.amzn2.0.5.noarch  
  
src:  
    ca-certificates-2021.2.50-72.amzn2.0.5.src  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2022-23491

Mitre: CVE-2022-23491