david b
2010-Sep-29 07:15 UTC
[Secure-testing-team] Bug#598463: python-libcloud: libcloud https connections are not secured against mitm attacks
Package: python-libcloud Severity: grave Tags: security Justification: user security hole libcloud fails to perform ssl validation on https connections. This means that users of this module, who which perform api requests using https urls / connections are at risk to mitm attacks. See http://github.com/tjfontaine/linode-python/issues/issue/1#issue/1 for more information. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.6 APT prefers stable APT policy: (900, ''stable''), (600, ''unstable'') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.35.4 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash