bugtraq - Re: Firefox 3.6 for Windows includes a forged CA cert

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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:16:06 +0100
From: Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de>
To: Francis Litterio <flitterio@...il.com>
Cc: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Firefox 3.6 for Windows includes a forged CA cert

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 08:22:16PM +0000, Francis Litterio wrote:
> In Firefox 3.6 for Windows, go to Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Encryption ->
> View Certificates -> Authorities and scroll down to the entry for "Equifax
> Secure Inc." and you'll see a cert labeled "MD5 Collisions Inc
> (http://www.phreedom.org/md5)" grouped with the other Equifax certs.
> 
> Yes, it's expired, so it poses no real threat, but why is the Mozilla Project
> shipping Firefox with that cert?  It just causes FUD.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471715 is the associated mozilla bug.

seems intentional.

Ciao, Marcus