Advisories ยป MGASA-2013-0250

Updated python packages fix CVE-2013-4328 and pip

Publication date: 17 Aug 2013
Modification date: 26 Aug 2013
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 2 , 3
CVE: CVE-2013-4238

Description

Updated python packages fix security vulnerability:

Ryan Sleevi of the Google Chrome Security Team has discovered that Python's SSL
module doesn't handle NULL bytes inside subjectAltNames general names. This
could lead to a breach when an application uses ssl.match_hostname() to match
the hostname againt the certificate's subjectAltName's dNSName general names.
(CVE-2013-4238).

Additionally, an issue with installing Python packages with C extensions via
pip and virtualenv has been fixed in Mageia 3 (mga#10102).
                

References

SRPMS

2/core

3/core