Name        : libsocialweb
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 0.25.20
Release     : 1.fc16
URL         : http://www.gnome.org/
Summary     : A social network data aggregator
Description :
libsocialweb is a social data server which fetches data from the "social
 web",
such as your friend's blog posts and photos, upcoming events, recently
 played
tracks, and pending eBay* auctions. It also provides a service to update
your status on web services which support it, such as MySpace* and Twitter*.

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Update Information:

CVE-2011-4129



A security flaw was found in the way the libsocialweb, a social network data
 aggregator, performed its initialization when this service start was initiated by the dbus daemon. Due to a deficiency in a way the libsocialweb service was initialized, an untrusted (non-SSL) network connection has been opened to remote Twitter service servers without explicit approval of the user, running the libsocialweb service on the local host. A remote attacker could use this flaw to conduct various MITM attacks and potentially alter integrity of the user account in question.



* libsocialweb: The views will try and fetch content from the web service even
 if they aren't configured.



* rest: enforce that the SSL certificate is valid
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ChangeLog:

* Sat Nov 12 2011 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@fedoraproject.org> 0.25.20-1
- update to 0.25.20. Fixes CVE-2011-4129, RHBZ 752022
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #752022 - CVE-2011-4129 libsocialweb: Untrusted connection to
 Twitter without user's approval upon service start via dbus
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=752022
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update libsocialweb' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
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