[Secure-testing-team] Bug#714541: ruby1.8: CVE-2013-4073: Hostname check bypassing vulnerability in SSL client

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Package: ruby1.8
Severity: normal
Tags: security upstream patch fixed-upstream

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for ruby1.8.

CVE-2013-4073[0]:
Hostname check bypassing vulnerability in SSL client

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4073
    http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4073
[1] http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/06/27/hostname-check-bypassing-vulnerability-in-openssl-client-cve-2013-4073/
[2] https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/961bf7496ded3acfe847cf56fa90bbdcfd6e614f

(note the patch[2] contains a typo and need the follow up patch too).

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore