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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2482-1 (libgdata)

Information

Severity

Severity

Critical

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

10.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

11 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to libgdata announced via advisory DSA 2482-1.

Insight

Insight

Vreixo Formoso discovered that libgdata, a library used to access various Google services, wasn't validating certificates against trusted system root CAs when using an https connection. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.4-2+squeeze1. For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.10.2-1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.10.2-1.

Solution

Solution

We recommend that you upgrade your libgdata packages.

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