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Debian: DSA-2482-1 Moderate: libgdata Insufficient Certificate Check

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Calendar Grey June 2, 2012
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The latest Debian update DSA-2482-2 tackles vulnerabilities in libgdata related to secure HTTP links and trust verification concerns in certificates.
Vreixo Formoso discovered that libgdata, a library used to access various Google services, wasn't validating certificates against trusted system root CAs when using an https connec...

Summary

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.6.4-2+squeeze1.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.10.2-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.10.2-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libgdata packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: libgdata
CVE ID: CVE-2012-2653

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