Mageia alert MGASA-2014-0257 (perl-LWP-Protocol-https)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2014-0257: Updated perl-LWP-Protocol-https package fixes CVE-2014-3230 
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Fri, 6 Jun 2014 19:46:01 +0200
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MGASA-2014-0257 - Updated perl-LWP-Protocol-https package fixes CVE-2014-3230

Publication date: 06 Jun 2014
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0257.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 4
CVE: CVE-2014-3230

Description:
Updated perl-LWP-Protocol-https package fixes security vulnerability:

It was reported that libwww-perl (LWP), when using IO::Socket::SSL (the
default) and when the HTTPS_CA_DIR or HTTPS_CA_FILE environment variables
were set, would disable server certificate verification, when the intent
was to only disable hostname verification (CVE-2014-3230).

References:
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announc...
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13425
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3230

SRPMS:
- 4/core/perl-LWP-Protocol-https-6.40.0-2.1.mga4