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Fedora 23: FEDORA-2016-65b7608d8b Critical: Okio Certificate Bypass

This update fixes a security vulnerability which allows an attacker to bypass certificate pinning and cause OkHttp not not to validate that the pinned certificate was in the chain to a trusted certificate authority.. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2016-65b7608d8b 2016-02-29 18:03:52.031144 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : okio Product : Fedora 23 Version : 1.6.0 Release : 1.fc23 URL : https://square.github.io/okio/ Summary : Java I/O library Description : Okio is a new library that complements java.io and java.nio to make it much easier to access, store, and process data. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update fixes a security vulnerability which allows an attacker to bypass certificate pinning and cause OkHttp not not to validate that the pinned certificate was in the chain to a trusted certificate authority. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #1308851 - CVE-2016-2402 okhttp: certificate pining bypass https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1308851 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update okio' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at . All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/security/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/package-announce.lists.fedoraproject.org/ . This patch addresses asignificant vulnerability that permitted a bypass in SSL certificate validation within Okio for Fedora 23, thereby improving system integrity.. Fedora Security Update, Okio Certificate Bypass, Security Update Notification. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Feb 29, 2016 •Critical Fedora