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Scientific Linux: CVE-2008-3270 Moderate: Yum-RHN-Plugin Update

Calendar Aug 14, 2008 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory SSL certificate yum-rhn-plugin Scientific Linux network redirection malicious metadata
Moderate: yum-rhn-plugin security update 
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:58:31 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for yum-rhn-plugin on SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: yum-rhn-plugin security update
Issue date:	2008-08-14
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-3270

It was discovered that yum-rhn-plugin did not verify the SSL certificate
for all communication with a Red Hat Network server. An attacker able to
redirect the network communication between a victim and an RHN server could
use this flaw to provide malicious repository metadata. This metadata could
be used to block the victim from receiving specific security updates.
(CVE-2008-3270)

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.3-12.el5_2.9.src.rpm
 i386:
yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.3-12.el5_2.9.noarch.rpm
 x86_64:
yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.3-12.el5_2.9.noarch.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson