Mageia alert MGASA-2013-0277 (python-OpenSSL)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2013-0277: Updated python-OpenSSL package fixes security vulnerability 
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Fri, 13 Sep 2013 22:16:09 +0200
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MGASA-2013-0277 - Updated python-OpenSSL package fixes security vulnerability

Publication date: 13 Sep 2013
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2013-0277.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 2, 3
CVE: CVE-2013-4314

Description:
The string formatting of subjectAltName X509Extension instances in
pyOpenSSL before 0.13.1 incorrectly truncated fields of the name when
encountering a null byte, possibly allowing man-in-the-middle attacks
through certificate spoofing (CVE-2013-4314).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11206
- https://mail.python.org/pipermail/pyopenssl-users/2013-Se...
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1005325
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4314

SRPMS:
- 3/core/python-OpenSSL-0.13-2.1.mga3
- 2/core/python-OpenSSL-0.12-1.1.mga2