On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 10:36:15AM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > 1.26 (just uploaded to unstable) fixes what looks like a fairly serious > security issue: > > v1.26 2009.07.03 > - SECURITY BUGFIX! > fix Bug in verify_hostname_of_cert where it matched only the prefix for > the hostname when no wildcard was given, e.g. www.example.org matched > against a certificate with name www.exam in it > Thanks to MLEHMANN for reporting > > >From inspecting the source this appears to apply to at least 1.24-1 > (testing) and 1.16-1 (stable).
Hi security team. I'd be grateful if you could review this and let us know whether you believe a security update is necessary. A package with the fix backported has been prepared in http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-perl/branches/lenny/libio-socket-ssl-perl/ although it has not yet been fully tested. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org