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Fedora 10: perl-Net-OAuth Update Addresses Session Fixation Threat

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Calendar Grey October 15, 2009
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Fedora 10 includes a patch to fix a session hijacking vulnerability in the OAuth authentication process related to perl-Net-OAuth, urging users to upgrade.
A session fixation vulnerability was discovered in OAuth protocol 1.0

Summary

Perl implementation of OAuth, an open protocol to allow secure API

authentication in a simple and standard method from desktop and web

applications. In practical terms, a mechanism for a Consumer to request

protected resources from a Service Provider on behalf of a user.

Update Information:

A session fixation vulnerability was discovered in OAuth protocol 1.0. Perl OAuth bindings were updated to support the new version of the OAauth protocol that was issued to address the vulnerability. All OAuth users are strongly advised to update to this updated package and protocol version 1.0a which fixes the vulnerability. Upstream advisory: https://oauth.net/advisories/2009-1/

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Fedora moderate threat perl package session fixation OAuth update

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #528608 - current perl-Net-OAuth does not support OAuth 1.0a https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528608

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update perl-Net-OAuth' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: perl-Net-OAuth
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 0.19
Release: 1.fc10
URL: https://metacpan.org/dist/Net-OAuth
Summary: OAuth protocol support library for Perl

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Fedora moderate threat perl package session fixation OAuth update

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