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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-233

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-233
Posted Sep 13, 2013
Authored by Mandriva | Site mandriva.com

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-233 - The string formatting of subjectAltName X509Extension instances in pyOpenSSL before 0.13.1 incorrectly truncated fields of the name when encountering a null byte, possibly allowing man-in-the-middle attacks through certificate spoofing. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

tags | advisory, spoof
systems | linux, mandriva
advisories | CVE-2013-4314
SHA-256 | a43120d106d63684cf3f88a50e2e526955d2903de89c95489a0ab2bb2069c224

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-233

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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2013:233
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : python-OpenSSL
Date : September 13, 2013
Affected: Business Server 1.0
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Problem Description:

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in python-OpenSSL:

The string formatting of subjectAltName X509Extension instances in
pyOpenSSL before 0.13.1 incorrectly truncated fields of the name when
encountering a null byte, possibly allowing man-in-the-middle attacks
through certificate spoofing (CVE-2013-4314).

The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4314
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Updated Packages:

Mandriva Business Server 1/X86_64:
9c1a53018f31b26cee286d9c05e06e6c mbs1/x86_64/python-OpenSSL-0.12-2.1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
f6b4dc37dde9cc96018b1f98a9f4df93 mbs1/SRPMS/python-OpenSSL-0.12-2.1.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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