Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-166 - 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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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2014:166
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : serf
Date : September 2, 2014
Affected: Business Server 1.0
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Problem Description:
Updated serf packages fix security vulnerability:
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 (CVE-2014-3504).
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References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3504
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0353.html
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Updated Packages:
Mandriva Business Server 1/X86_64:
741d24f4b5c123e557ba7d83a62de3d1 mbs1/x86_64/lib64serf0-1.1.1-1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
f94ad58d4b5a4d7e132d27139727744d mbs1/x86_64/lib64serf-devel-1.1.1-1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
d696485167e8ed03bad287a0c75c9b2b mbs1/SRPMS/serf-1.1.1-1.mbs1.src.rpm
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