Pardus alert 2011-79 (kdelibs)

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Meltem Parmaksız <meltem@pardus.org.tr> 
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[Pardus-security]  [PLSA 2011-79] kdelibs: MITM Attack 
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Thu, 26 May 2011 15:01:07 +0300
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Pardus Linux Security Advisory 2011-79            security@pardus.org.tr
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      Date: 2011-05-11
  Severity: 3
      Type: Local
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Summary
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A vulnerability has been fixed in kdelibs,which  can  be  exploited  by 
malicious people to man-in-the-middle attack. 


Description
===========

CVE-2011-1094 

An attacker able to get an SSL certificate form a trusted CA issued for 
an attacker-controlled IP address could perform a MITM attack, if  they 
were also able to hijack victim's DNS to  resolve  host  names  to  the 
attacker's IP. 



Affected packages:

  Pardus 2009:
    kdelibs, all before 4.4.5-80-52
  Pardus 2011:
    kdelibs, all before 4.5.5-94-p11


Resolution
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There are update(s) for kdelibs. You can update them via Package Manager
or with a single command from console: 

  Pardus 2009:
    pisi up kdelibs

  Pardus 2011:
    pisi up kdelibs


References
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  * http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-...
  * http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=17340

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