-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2009-0660 2009-10-16 18:48:13 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : perl-Net-OAuth Product : Fedora EPEL 5 Version : 0.19 Release : 1.el5 URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-OAuth/ Summary : OAuth protocol support library for Perl Description : Perl implementation of OAuth, an open protocol to allow secure API authentication in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications. In practical terms, a mechanism for a Consumer to request protected resources from a Service Provider on behalf of a user.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
A session fixation vulnerability was discovered in OAuth protocol 1.0. Perl OAuth bindings were updated to support the new version of the OAauth protocol that was issued to address the vulnerability. All OAuth users are strongly advised to update to this updated package and protocol version 1.0a which fixes the vulnerability. Upstream advisory: http://oauth.net/advisories/2009-1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #528608 - current perl-Net-OAuth does not support OAuth 1.0a https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528608 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use su -c 'yum update perl-Net-OAuth' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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