Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-127 - 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.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2015:127
https://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : serf
Date : March 29, 2015
Affected: Business Server 2.0
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Problem 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).
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References:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3504
https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0353.html
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Updated Packages:
Mandriva Business Server 2/X86_64:
f5a7ea7fda3b382c04f75fc309e80624 mbs2/x86_64/lib64serf1-1.3.2-3.1.mbs2.x86_64.rpm
ccd6ad417f5c8e0a192b7b55dec8fc2c mbs2/x86_64/lib64serf-devel-1.3.2-3.1.mbs2.x86_64.rpm
d91af5e8113603c84b1a5d554e4bb995 mbs2/SRPMS/serf-1.3.2-3.1.mbs2.src.rpm
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