aw at linux.de
2012-Aug-10 16:19 UTC
[Secure-testing-team] Bug#684511: libpython2.6: CVE-2011-3389 - SSL man-in-the-middle attack
Package: libpython2.6 Version: 2.6.6-8 Severity: important Tags: security, squeeze Justification: user security hole CVE-2011-3389 is fixed in unstable/testing, but not in stable, yet: The SSL protocol [...] encrypts data by using CBC mode with chained initialization vectors, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain plaintext HTTP headers via a blockwise chosen-boundary attack (BCBA) on an HTTPS session, in conjunction with JavaScript code that uses (1) the HTML5 WebSocket API, (2) the Java URLConnection API, or (3) the Silverlight WebClient API, aka a "BEAST" attack. cu AW -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, ''stable-updates''), (500, ''stable''), (50, ''proposed-updates'') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages libpython2.6 depends on: ii libc6 2.11.3-4 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8o-4squeeze13 SSL shared libraries ii python2.6 2.6.6-8 An interactive high-level object-o ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime libpython2.6 recommends no packages. libpython2.6 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information