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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-229

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-229
Posted Sep 10, 2013
Authored by Mandriva | Site mandriva.com

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-229 - A denial of service flaw was found in the way SSL module implementation of Python 3 performed matching of the certificate's name in the case it contained many '*' wildcard characters. A remote attacker, able to obtain valid certificate with its name containing a lot of '*' wildcard characters could use this flaw to cause denial of service (excessive CPU consumption) by issuing request to validate such a certificate for / to an application using the Python's ssl.match_hostname() functionality.

tags | advisory, remote, denial of service, python
systems | linux, mandriva
advisories | CVE-2013-2099
SHA-256 | e55f4fdbd1dac58bc000e9004a9873f1d5b813753890f488ddd4a4260314a28c

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-229

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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2013:229
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : bzr
Date : September 10, 2013
Affected: Business Server 1.0
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Problem Description:

Updated bzr packages fix security vulnerabilities:

A denial of service flaw was found in the way SSL module implementation
of Python 3 performed matching of the certificate's name in the case
it contained many '*' wildcard characters. A remote attacker, able to
obtain valid certificate with its name containing a lot of '*' wildcard
characters could use this flaw to cause denial of service (excessive
CPU consumption) by issuing request to validate such a certificate
for / to an application using the Python's ssl.match_hostname()
functionality (CVE-2013-2099).
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2099
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2013-0252.html
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Updated Packages:

Mandriva Business Server 1/X86_64:
563a17f7f5cb219760291c5266f2af4e mbs1/x86_64/bzr-2.5.1-4.1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
7503fdbb4f4fb3eb5d2ecc1e72676390 mbs1/SRPMS/bzr-2.5.1-4.1.mbs1.src.rpm
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To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

All packages are signed by Mandriva for security. You can obtain the
GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/advisories/

If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

security_(at)_mandriva.com
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
<security*mandriva.com>
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