Scientific Linux: CVE-2011-2524 Moderate: Libsoup Directory Traversal Issue

Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:17:57 -0500
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From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: libsoup on SL6.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis: Moderate: libsoup security update
Issue Date: 2011-07-28
CVE Numbers: CVE-2011-2524

libsoup is an HTTP client/library implementation for GNOME.

A directory traversal flaw was found in libsoup's SoupServer. If an
application used SoupServer to implement an HTTP service, a remote attacker
who is able to connect to that service could use this flaw to access any
local files accessible to that application via a specially-crafted request.
(CVE-2011-2524)

All users of libsoup should upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain a backported patch to resolve this issue. All running applications
using libsoup's SoupServer must be restarted for the update to take effect.

SL6:
 i386
 libsoup-2.28.2-1.el6_1.1.i686.rpm
 libsoup-debuginfo-2.28.2-1.el6_1.1.i686.rpm
 libsoup-devel-2.28.2-1.el6_1.1.i686.rpm
 x86_64
 libsoup-2.28.2-1.el6_1.1.i686.rpm
 libsoup-2.28.2-1.el6_1.1.x86_64.rpm
 libsoup-debuginfo-2.28.2-1.el6_1.1.i686.rpm
 libsoup-debuginfo-2.28.2-1.el6_1.1.x86_64.rpm
 libsoup-devel-2.28.2-1.el6_1.1.i686.rpm
 libsoup-devel-2.28.2-1.el6_1.1.x86_64.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team