1492779 - certificate for versioncheck.addons.thunderbird.net has expired

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Add-Ons: General, defect)

Description

[Christoph Z.]

Attachment: Screenshot_2018-09-20_11-57-36_tb_cert_problem.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0
Build ID: 20180905135451

Steps to reproduce:

1) Start Thunderbird
2) Open Addons page
3) Click on "check for updates"


Actual results:

Connection to update server is not possible, error console shows this:


versioncheck.addons.thunderbird.net:443 uses an invalid security certificate.

The certificate expired on Thursday, 20 September 2018, 05:08. The current time is Thursday, 20 September 2018, 11:54.

Error code: <a id="errorCode" title="SEC_ERROR_EXPIRED_CERTIFICATE">SEC_ERROR_EXPIRED_CERTIFICATE</a>
 (unknown)
1537437297960	addons.update-checker	WARN	HTTP Request failed for an unknown reason


Expected results:

Thunderbird should connect to its addons page to look for addon updates.

Comment 1

[Jørgen Rasmussen]

The expired certificate also triggers a warning in Kaspersky Total Security program.

Comment 2

[Andrei [:sancus]]

This shows as fixed for me. It's a Cloudfront distribution so some edge locations may not have the renewed cert, but that should resolve itself.