Scientific Linux: Moderate Realignment on cURL SSL Issues

Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:46:56 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: curl on SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: curl security update
Issue date:	2009-08-13
CVE Names:	CVE-2009-2417
CVE-2009-2417 curl: incorrect verification of SSL certificate with NUL
in name

Scott Cantor reported that cURL is affected by the previously published
"null prefix attack", caused by incorrect handling of NULL characters in
X.509 certificates. If an attacker is able to get a carefully-crafted
certificate signed by a trusted Certificate Authority, the attacker
could use the certificate during a man-in-the-middle attack and
potentially confuse cURL into accepting it by mistake. (CVE-2009-2417)

All running applications using libcurl must be restarted for the update
to take effect.

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
curl-7.15.5-2.1.el5_3.5.src.rpm
 i386:
curl-7.15.5-2.1.el5_3.5.i386.rpm
curl-devel-7.15.5-2.1.el5_3.5.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
curl-7.15.5-2.1.el5_3.5.i386.rpm
curl-7.15.5-2.1.el5_3.5.x86_64.rpm
curl-devel-7.15.5-2.1.el5_3.5.i386.rpm
curl-devel-7.15.5-2.1.el5_3.5.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson