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gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201208-06.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/xsl/glsa.xsl"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/xsl/guide.xsl"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201208-06">
<title>libgdata: Man-in-the-Middle attack</title>
<synopsis>A vulnerability in libgdata could allow remote attackers to perform
man-in-the-middle attacks.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">libgdata</product>
<announced>August 14, 2012</announced>
<revised>August 14, 2012: 1</revised>
<bug>408245</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="dev-libs/libgdata" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">0.8.1-r2</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">0.8.1-r2</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>libgdata is a GLib-based library for accessing online service APIs using
the GData protocol.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>An error in the "_gdata_service_build_session()" function of
gdata-service.c prevents libgdata from properly validating certificates.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>A remote attacker could perform man-in-the-middle attacks to spoof
arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All libgdata users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-libs/libgdata-0.8.1-r2"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-1177">CVE-2012-1177</uri>
</references>
<metadata timestamp="Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:40:07 +0000" tag="requester">ackle</metadata>
<metadata timestamp="Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:31:17 +0000" tag="submitter">ackle</metadata>
</glsa>