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

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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:00:30 -0600
From: adam@...ga.org.uk
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Firefox 3.6 for Windows includes a forged CA cert

If you check further into that certificates configuration, you'll see that it's explicitly disabled, so that if it is encountered, it won't be accepted.

Firefox ships with that certificate, so that it can be stopped from using it.