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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/xsl/glsa.xsl"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/xsl/guide.xsl"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="201208-06">
+ <title>libgdata: Man-in-the-Middle attack</title>
+ <synopsis>A vulnerability in libgdata could allow remote attackers to perform
+ man-in-the-middle attacks.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">libgdata</product>
+ <announced>August 14, 2012</announced>
+ <revised>August 14, 2012: 1</revised>
+ <bug>408245</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="dev-libs/libgdata" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">0.8.1-r2</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">0.8.1-r2</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>libgdata is a GLib-based library for accessing online service APIs using
+ the GData protocol.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>An error in the "_gdata_service_build_session()" function of
+ gdata-service.c prevents libgdata from properly validating certificates.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>A remote attacker could perform man-in-the-middle attacks to spoof
+ arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>All libgdata users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-libs/libgdata-0.8.1-r2"
+ </code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-1177">CVE-2012-1177</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata timestamp="Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:40:07 +0000" tag="requester">ackle</metadata>
+ <metadata timestamp="Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:31:17 +0000" tag="submitter">ackle</metadata>
+</glsa>