-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2013-8694 2013-05-21 06:58:45 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : python-backports-ssl_match_hostname Product : Fedora 18 Version : 3.2 Release : 0.3.a3.fc18 URL : https://bitbucket.org/brandon/backports.ssl_match_hostname Summary : The ssl.match_hostname() function from Python 3.2 Description : The Secure Sockets layer is only actually secure if you check the hostname in the certificate returned by the server to which you are connecting, and verify that it matches to hostname that you are trying to reach. But the matching logic, defined in RFC2818, can be a bit tricky to implement on your own. So the ssl package in the Standard Library of Python 3.2 now includes a match_hostname() function for performing this check instead of requiring every application to implement the check separately. This backport brings match_hostname() to users of earlier versions of Python. The actual code inside comes verbatim from Python 3.2. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Fixes CVE-2013-2098 -- Denial of Service with SSL certificates which have specially crafted wildcard patterns. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #963186 - python-backports-ssl_match_hostname: Denial of service when matching certificate with many '*' wildcard characters https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=963186 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update python-backports-ssl_match_hostname' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
