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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-6369
2014-05-14 23:05:04
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Name : perl-LWP-Protocol-https
Product : Fedora 19
Version : 6.04
Release : 2.fc19
URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/LWP-Protocol-https/
Summary : Provide HTTPS support for LWP::UserAgent
Description :
The LWP::Protocol::https module provides support for using HTTPS schemed
URLs with LWP. This module is a plug-in to the LWP protocol handling, so
you don’t use it directly. Once the module is installed LWP is able to
access sites using HTTP over SSL/TLS.

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Update Information:

This release fixes a server certification validation when a certificate authority is defined by HTTPS_CA_DIR or HTTPS_CA_FILE environement variable.
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ChangeLog:

* Mon May 12 2014 Petr Pisar <ppisar@redhat.com> – 6.04-2
– Fix CVE-2014-3230 (incorrect handling of SSL certificate verification if
HTTPS_CA_DIR or HTTPS_CA_FILE environment variables are set) (bug #1094442)
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1094440 – CVE-2014-3230 perl-libwww-perl: incorrect handling of SSL certificate verification
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1094440
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