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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: USN-2315-1 Moderate: Serf Man In The Middle Attack

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Calendar Grey August 14, 2014
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Deceptive encryption keys in serf may jeopardize confidential data, impacting Debian 8 and 7 releases.
Fraudulent security certificates could allow sensitive information to be exposed when accessing the Internet.

Summary

Fraudulent security certificates could allow sensitive information to

be exposed when accessing the Internet.

Software Description:

- serf: high-performance asynchronous HTTP client library

Details:

Ben Reser discovered that serf did not correctly handle SSL certificates

with NUL bytes in the CommonName or SubjectAltNames fields. A remote

attacker could exploit this to perform a man in the middle attack to view

sensitive information or alter encrypted communications.

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Topics Covered

security advisory ubuntu sensitive information man in the middle serf

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  libserf-1-1                     1.3.3-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  libserf1                        1.0.0-2ubuntu0.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2315-1

CVE-2014-3504

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August 14, 2014

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Topics Covered

security advisory ubuntu sensitive information man in the middle serf

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/serf/1.3.3-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/serf/1.0.0-2ubuntu0.1

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