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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 201401-24
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Severity: Low
Title: INN: Man-in-the-middle attack
Date: January 21, 2014
Bugs: #432002
ID: 201401-24

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Synopsis
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A vulnerability in INN’s STARTTLS implementation could allow a remote
attacker to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack.

Background
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INN is a news server which can interface with Usenet.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-nntp/inn < 2.5.3 >= 2.5.3

Description
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INN’s I/O buffering is not correctly restricted.

Impact
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A remote attacker could inject commands into encrypted NNTP sessions.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All INN users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge –sync
# emerge –ask –oneshot –verbose “>=net-nntp/inn-2.5.3”

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2012-3523
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-3523

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201401-24.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users’ machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2014 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons – Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5

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