glsa-201401-24.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201401-24">
  <title>INN: Man-in-the-middle attack</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in INN's STARTTLS implementation could allow a
    remote attacker to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">inn</product>
  <announced>2014-01-21</announced>
  <revised count="1">2014-01-21</revised>
  <bug>432002</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-nntp/inn" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.5.3</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.5.3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>INN is a news server which can interface with Usenet.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>INN’s I/O buffering is not correctly restricted.</p>
  </description>
  <impact type="low">
    <p>A remote attacker could inject commands into encrypted NNTP sessions.</p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All INN users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-nntp/inn-2.5.3"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-3523">CVE-2012-3523</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2012-12-16T21:56:39Z">craig</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2014-01-21T20:26:02Z">
    creffett
  </metadata>
</glsa>