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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2011-0633: libwww-perl: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2011-0633: libwww-perl: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
05/13/2011
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

The Net::HTTPS module in libwww-perl (LWP) before 6.00, as used in WWW::Mechanize, LWP::UserAgent, and other products, when running in environments that do not set the If-SSL-Cert-Subject header, does not enable full validation of SSL certificates by default, which allows remote attackers to spoof servers via man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks involving hostnames that are not properly validated. NOTE: it could be argued that this is a design limitation of the Net::HTTPS API, and separate implementations should be independently assigned CVE identifiers for not working around this limitation. However, because this API was modified within LWP, a single CVE identifier has been assigned.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-perl-libwww-perl

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