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PYSEC-2014-93

Quick fix

PYSEC-2014-93 — pywbem: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'pywbem>=0.8.1'

Details

PyWBEM 0.7 and earlier uses a separate connection to validate X.509 certificates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof a peer via an arbitrary certificate.

Are you affected?

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Affected packages

PyPI/pywbem

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 0.8.1

Fixpip install --upgrade 'pywbem>=0.8.1'

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1039801[REPORT]
http://sourceforge.net/p/pywbem/code/627/[WEB]
http://secunia.com/advisories/58327[ADVISORY]
https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2014/suse-su-20140580-1.html[WEB]
http://sourceforge.net/p/pywbem/mailman/message/31757312/[WEB]
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/531[WEB]
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html[WEB]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64544[WEB]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f9q5-46qg-74x4[ADVISORY]