Synopsis: Moderate: yum-rhn-plugin security update Issue date: 2008-08-14 CVE Names: CVE-2008-3270 It was discovered that yum-rhn-plugin did not verify the SSL certificate for all communication with a Red Hat Network server. An attacker able to redirect the network communication between a victim and an RHN server could use this flaw to provide malicious repository metadata. This metadata could be used to block the victim from receiving specific security updates. (CVE-2008-3270) SL 5.x SRPMS: yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.3-12.el5_2.9.src.rpm i386: yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.3-12.el5_2.9.noarch.rpm x86_64: yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.3-12.el5_2.9.noarch.rpm -Connie Sieh -Troy Dawson