Summary
The remote host is missing an update to neon
announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-8794.
Solution
Apply the appropriate updates.
This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use su -c 'yum update neon' at the command line.
For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum, available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2009-8794
Insight
Update Information:
This update includes the latest release of neon, version 0.28.6.
This fixes two security issues:
* the billion laughs attack against expat could allow a Denial of Service attack by a malicious server. (CVE-2009-2473) * an embedded NUL byte in a certificate subject name could allow an undetected MITM attack against an SSL server if a trusted CA issues such a cert.
Several bug fixes are also included, notably:
* X.509v1 CA certificates are trusted by default
* Fix handling of some PKCS#12 certificates
ChangeLog:
* Wed Aug 19 2009 Joe Orton 0.28.6-1
- update to 0.28.6
* Fri May 29 2009 Joe Orton 0.28.4-1.1
- trust V1 CA certs by default (#502451)
* Fri Mar 6 2009 Joe Orton 0.28.4-1
- update to 0.28.4
* Mon Jan 19 2009 Joe Orton 0.28.3-3
- use install-p in make install (Robert Scheck, #226189)
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-2473 -
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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