Mageia alert MGASA-2014-0353 (serf)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2014-0353: Updated serf packages fix CVE-2014-3504 
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Wed, 27 Aug 2014 01:05:12 +0200
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MGASA-2014-0353 - Updated serf packages fix CVE-2014-3504

Publication date: 26 Aug 2014
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0353.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 3, 4
CVE: CVE-2014-3504

Description:
Updated serf packages fix security vulnerability:

Ben Reser discovered that serf did not correctly handle SSL certificates
with NUL bytes in the CommonName or SubjectAltNames fields. A remote
attacker could exploit this to perform a man in the middle attack to view
sensitive information or alter encrypted communications (CVE-2014-3504).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13914
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2315-1/
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3504

SRPMS:
- 4/core/serf-1.3.2-2.1.mga4
- 3/core/serf-1.1.1-2.1.mga3