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Fedora: perl-Net-OAuth Update Fixes Critical Session Fixation Issue

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Calendar Grey October 15, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The upgrade for perl-Net-OAuth in Fedora addresses a significant session fixation vulnerability within the OAuth protocol. This update is essential for all users.
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 critical issue Fedora session fixation perl-Net-OAuth

Change Log

* Tue Oct 13 2009 Lubomir Rintel (Good Data) - 0.19-1 - Update to 0.19, fixes security issue (2009.1) * Sun Jul 26 2009 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.14-3 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild

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 11
Version: 0.19
Release: 1.fc11
URL: https://metacpan.org/dist/Net-OAuth
Summary: OAuth protocol support library for Perl

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security advisory critical issue Fedora session fixation perl-Net-OAuth

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