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Fedora alert FEDORA-2011-15839 (libsocialweb)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: libsocialweb-0.25.20-1.fc15
Date:  Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:03:00 +0000
Message-ID:  <20111129000300.DB772210B4@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2011-15839 2011-11-13 04:38:51 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : libsocialweb Product : Fedora 15 Version : 0.25.20 Release : 1.fc15 URL : http://www.gnome.org/ Summary : A social network data aggregator Description : libsocialweb is a social data server which fetches data from the "social web", such as your friend's blog posts and photos, upcoming events, recently played tracks, and pending eBay* auctions. It also provides a service to update your status on web services which support it, such as MySpace* and Twitter*. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: CVE-2011-4129 A security flaw was found in the way the libsocialweb, a social network data aggregator, performed its initialization when this service start was initiated by the dbus daemon. Due to a deficiency in a way the libsocialweb service was initialized, an untrusted (non-SSL) network connection has been opened to remote Twitter service servers without explicit approval of the user, running the libsocialweb service on the local host. A remote attacker could use this flaw to conduct various MITM attacks and potentially alter integrity of the user account in question. * libsocialweb: The views will try and fetch content from the web service even if they aren't configured. * rest: enforce that the SSL certificate is valid -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Sat Nov 12 2011 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@fedoraproject.org> 0.25.20-1 - update to 0.25.20. Fixes CVE-2011-4129, RHBZ 752022 * Mon Jul 4 2011 Bastien Nocera <bnocera@redhat.com> 0.25.19-1 - Update to 0.25.19 * Wed Jun 15 2011 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@fedoraproject.org> 0.25.18-1 - Update to 0.25.18 * Sun May 22 2011 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@fedoraproject.org> 0.25.17-1 - Update to 0.25.17 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #752022 - CVE-2011-4129 libsocialweb: Untrusted connection to Twitter without user's approval upon service start via dbus https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=752022 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update libsocialweb' 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 https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-...


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