[Secure-testing-team] Bug#884693: ruby-net-ldap: CVE-2017-17718: missing certificate validation

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: ruby-net-ldap
Version: 0.12.1-2
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/ruby-ldap/ruby-net-ldap/issues/258

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for ruby-net-ldap.

CVE-2017-17718[0]:
| The Net::LDAP (aka net-ldap) gem before 0.16.0 for Ruby has Missing SSL
| Certificate Validation.

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] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17718
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-17718
[1] https://github.com/ruby-ldap/ruby-net-ldap/issues/258

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore