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perl-libwww-perl: man-in-the-middle attack

Package(s):perl-libwww-perl CVE #(s):CVE-2011-0633
Created:May 31, 2011 Updated:June 2, 2011
Description: From the CVE entry:

The Net::HTTPS module in libwww-perl (LWP) before 6.00, as used in WWW::Mechanize, LWP::UserAgent, and other products, when running in environments that do not set the If-SSL-Cert-Subject header, does not enable full validation of SSL certificates by default, which allows remote attackers to spoof servers via man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks involving hostnames that are not properly validated. NOTE: it could be argued that this is a design limitation of the Net::HTTPS API, and separate implementations should be independently assigned CVE identifiers for not working around this limitation. However, because this API was modified within LWP, a single CVE identifier has been assigned.

Alerts:
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2011:0552-1 2011-05-31

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