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Gentoo: GLSA-202203-15 Low: BIND Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey January 21, 2014
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Gentoo GLSA 202201-15 pertains to a low severity vulnerability in OpenSSL regarding insecure session resumption. Update is advisable.
A vulnerability in INN's STARTTLS implementation could allow a remote attacker to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack.

Summary

INN's I/O buffering is not correctly restricted.

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Topics Covered

security advisory gentoo low severity man-in-the-middle attack STARTTLS INN

Resolution

All INN users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-nntp/inn-2.5.3"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2012-3523 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-3523

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201401-24
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

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Severity: Low
Title: INN: Man-in-the-middle attack
Date: January 21, 2014
Bugs: #432002
ID: 201401-24

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Topics Covered

security advisory gentoo low severity man-in-the-middle attack STARTTLS INN

Synopsis

A vulnerability in INN's STARTTLS implementation could allow a remote attacker to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack.

Background

INN is a news server which can interface with Usenet.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-nntp/inn < 2.5.3 >= 2.5.3

Impact

===== A remote attacker could inject commands into encrypted NNTP sessions.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.