Advisories » MGASA-2013-0229

Updated ruby packages fix CVE-2013-4073

Publication date: 26 Jul 2013
Modification date: 07 Mar 2016
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 2 , 3
CVE: CVE-2013-4073

Description

A vulnerability in Ruby's SSL client that could allow man-in-the-middle
attackers to spoof SSL servers via valid certificate issued by a trusted
certification authority (CVE-2013-4073).
                

References

• http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/06/27/hostname-check-bypassing-vulnerability-in-openssl-client-cve-2013-4073/
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1902-1/
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10637
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4073

SRPMS

3/core

• ruby-1.9.3.p448-1.mga3
• ruby-linecache19-0.5.13-5.1.mga3
• ruby-ruby-debug-base19-0.11.26-5.1.mga3

2/core

• ruby-1.8.7.p358-1.3.mga2