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Fedora 21: Critical Security Advisory for Libinfinity Certificate Check

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Calendar Grey June 1, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Safety enhancement for libinfinity in Fedora 21 aimed at improving certificate verification and safeguarding against associated vulnerabilities.
Security update to make libinfinity properly check certificates: https://github.com/gobby/gobby/issues/61

Summary

libinfinity is an implementation of the Infinote protocol written in GObject-based C.

Update Information:

Security update to make libinfinity properly check certificates: https://github.com/gobby/gobby/issues/61

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security advisory security issue critical severity certificate validation libinfinity Fedora 21

Change Log

* Fri May 15 2015 Till Maas - 0.6.6-1 - Update to new release, fixes security issue: https://github.com/gobby/gobby/issues/61, #1221266 * Sun Nov 9 2014 Till Maas - 0.6.4-1 - Update to new release * Tue Oct 21 2014 Till Maas - 0.6.3-1 - Update to new release * Sat Sep 20 2014 Till Maas - 0.6.2-1 - Update to new release * Fri Aug 29 2014 Till Maas - 0.6.1-1 - Update to new release

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1221266 - libinfinity: incorrect validation of certificates https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1221266

Update Instructions

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

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Name: libinfinity
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 0.6.6
Release: 1.fc21
URL: https://gobby.github.io
Summary: Library implementing the infinote protocol

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security advisory security issue critical severity certificate validation libinfinity Fedora 21

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