Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.61401
Category:	Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:	RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2008:0815
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2008:0815. The yum-rhn-plugin provides support for yum to securely access a Red Hat Network (RHN) server for software updates. It was discovered that yum-rhn-plugin did not verify the SSL certificate for all communication with a Red Hat Network server. An attacker able to redirect the network communication between a victim and an RHN server could use this flaw to provide malicious repository metadata. This metadata could be used to block the victim from receiving specific security updates. (CVE-2008-3270) This flaw did not allow an attacker to install malicious packages. Package signatures were verified and only packages signed with a trusted Red Hat GPG key were installed. Red Hat would like to thank Justin Samuel for discussing various package update mechanism flaws which led to our discovery of this issue. Users of yum-rhn-plugin are advised to upgrade to this updated packages, which resolves this issue. Solution: Please note that this update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0815.html http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate Risk factor : Medium CVSS Score: 2.6
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-3270 1020698 http://securitytracker.com/id?1020698 30695 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30695 31472 http://secunia.com/advisories/31472 RHSA-2008:0815 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0815.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457113 oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10864 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10864
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