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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2009.1397 A vulnerability has been found and corrected in libnasl 14 October 2009 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: libnasl Publisher: Mandriva Operating System: Mandriva UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX) Windows Impact/Access: Reduced Security -- Remote with User Interaction Resolution: Patch/Upgrade CVE Names: CVE-2009-0125 CVE-2008-5077 Reference: ESB-2009.0009 Original Bulletin: http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:271 Comment: This advisory references vulnerabilities in products which run on platforms other than Mandriva. It is recommended that administrators running libnasl check for an updated version of the software for their operating system. - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 _______________________________________________________________________ Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:271 http://www.mandriva.com/security/ _______________________________________________________________________ Package : libnasl Date : October 12, 2009 Affected: Corporate 4.0 _______________________________________________________________________ Problem Description: A vulnerability has been found and corrected in libnasl: nasl/nasl_crypto2.c in the Nessus Attack Scripting Language library (aka libnasl) 2.2.11 does not properly check the return value from the OpenSSL DSA_do_verify function, which allows remote attackers to bypass validation of the certificate chain via a malformed SSL/TLS signature, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2008-5077 (CVE-2009-0125). This update fixes this vulnerability. _______________________________________________________________________ References: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0125 _______________________________________________________________________ Updated Packages: Corporate 4.0: 5d0a75952ac9fa3c8fcf62a00bd072c1 corporate/4.0/i586/libnasl2-2.2.4-1.1.20060mlcs4.i586.rpm 49a5d1e0e484d36e5fdd31cfeff734b0 corporate/4.0/i586/libnasl2-devel-2.2.4-1.1.20060mlcs4.i586.rpm 727b1ff5b789fcce219553b95e1870a0 corporate/4.0/SRPMS/libnasl-2.2.4-1.1.20060mlcs4.src.rpm Corporate 4.0/X86_64: 11e767b9e52c2971e416d3c1207cc602 corporate/4.0/x86_64/lib64nasl2-2.2.4-1.1.20060mlcs4.x86_64.rpm 105602aac8d6f82ea356916778f64c7c corporate/4.0/x86_64/lib64nasl2-devel-2.2.4-1.1.20060mlcs4.x86_64.rpm 727b1ff5b789fcce219553b95e1870a0 corporate/4.0/SRPMS/libnasl-2.2.4-1.1.20060mlcs4.src.rpm _______________________________________________________________________ To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi. 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