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

<?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>