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Fedora alert FEDORA-2009-10520 (perl-Net-OAuth)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: perl-Net-OAuth-0.19-1.fc10
Date:  Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:35:30 +0000
Message-ID:  <20091015223530.26E3E10F87F@bastion2.fedora.phx.redhat.com>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-10520 2009-10-15 22:02:48 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : perl-Net-OAuth Product : Fedora 10 Version : 0.19 Release : 1.fc10 URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-OAuth/ Summary : OAuth protocol support library for Perl Description : Perl implementation of OAuth, an open protocol to allow secure API authentication in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications. In practical terms, a mechanism for a Consumer to request protected resources from a Service Provider on behalf of a user. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: A session fixation vulnerability was discovered in OAuth protocol 1.0. Perl OAuth bindings were updated to support the new version of the OAauth protocol that was issued to address the vulnerability. All OAuth users are strongly advised to update to this updated package and protocol version 1.0a which fixes the vulnerability. Upstream advisory: http://oauth.net/advisories/2009-1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #528608 - current perl-Net-OAuth does not support OAuth 1.0a https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528608 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update perl-Net-OAuth' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. 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 http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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