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perl-IO-Socket-SSL: denial of service

Package(s):perl-IO-Socket-SSL CVE #(s):CVE-2010-4334
Created:December 27, 2010 Updated:May 18, 2011
Description: From the Red Hat bugzilla:

A Debian bug report indicated that using the IO::Socket::SSL perl module, if the verify_mode were set to 0x03 (verify peer, fail verification if no peer certificate exists), that the requests were removed unless either the ca_file or ca_path were supplied. This means that IO::Socket::SSL "fails open" if the user forgets to supply information about an acceptable set of trusted CAs, rather than "failing closed" (denying access by default, rather than allowing it).

Alerts:
Mandriva MDVSA-2011:092 2011-05-18
Fedora FEDORA-2010-19054 2010-12-18
Fedora FEDORA-2010-19058 2010-12-18

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