MGASA-2013-0277

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    MGASA-2013-0277

    Published: 13 Sept 2013Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2013-4314

    Summary: Updated python-OpenSSL package fixes security vulnerability

    Details: The string formatting of subjectAltName X509Extension instances in pyOpenSSL before 0.13.1 incorrectly truncated fields of the name when encountering a null byte, possibly allowing man-in-the-middle attacks through certificate spoofing (CVE-2013-4314).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2013-0277.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11206, https://mail.python.org/pipermail/pyopenssl-users/2013-September/000478.html, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1005325

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: python-OpenSSL

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/python-OpenSSL?arch=source&distro=mageia-2

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.12-1.1.mga2

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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