Azure Linux 3.0.2022 bundles more than 470 CVE fixes
The kernel moves to 6.6.161.1, and Microsoft distrusts certificates tied to the eMudhra incident.
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The kernel moves to 6.6.161.1, and Microsoft distrusts certificates tied to the eMudhra incident.

An October 26 Windows update drops seven certificates after weak key generation exposed eight eMudhra intermediate keys.
The piece says attackers exploited two unnamed PHP flaws and that browsers have blocked eight bad certificates.

Re-encoded ECDSA and RSA intermediates still validated in tested JDKs after blocked.certs rejected the original encodings.
The notice says the denylist should protect users even when those certificates are not yet removed elsewhere.

The CVSS 9.1 JSSE flaw can let an on-path attacker forge trusted hostnames; no attacks are confirmed.
The October 22 post is truncated after Böck says he asked Mozilla what earlier messages meant.
The Hacker News post shows only a score of 42 points and eight comments, with no description of the flag.
Hanno Böck has not yet added checks for small ECDSA keys and plans a later write-up.
An Alpine edge SBOM check found 29 community and 41 testing packages potentially affected.

The private keys were the integers 4, 56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230 and 237, versus a normal P-384 key.
OneCRL reached standard Firefox users in under three hours; 158.0.1 and two ESR builds cover the rest.
A reader of the change says 16 certificates, all from eMudhra, appear to match.
The Hacker News item only shows 29 points and six comments, with no keys or versions.

Let's Encrypt will issue 64-day certificates by default from February 10, 2027, ahead of planned 45-day validity in 2028.

Let’s Encrypt will issue 64-day TLS certificates by default from February 10, 2027, down from 90 days.

Unsupported Windows devices will lose security updates after Windows Update certificates expire in 2027.

Let's Encrypt will cut default TLS certificate lifetimes from 90 to 64 days on February 10, 2027.

Microsoft urges teams to test PKI, HSMs, and appliances for post-quantum certificate authentication.

Microsoft's post-quantum TLS pilot asks enterprises to test ML-DSA certificates before production migration.

Microsoft urges organizations to inventory and test certificate systems now for post-quantum authentication using its PQC TLS pilot.

Let's Encrypt will shorten TLS certificate lifetimes from 90 to 64 days starting February 10, 2027.

Let's Encrypt will default to 64-day certificates on February 10, 2027.

Attackers hijacked .gh, .sl, and .as DNS to get certificates impersonating Google and others.
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