CVE-2008-3270

CVE-2008-3270 affects yum-rhn-plugin on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The root cause is that the plugin fails to verify the SSL certificate when contacting the Red Hat Network, enabling a man-in-the-middle to potentially cause a denial of service (loss of updates) or force installation of unrequest...

RHEL 5 : yum-rhn-plugin (RHSA-2008:0815)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2008:0815 advisory. The yum-rhn-plugin provides support for yum to securely access a Red Hat Network RHN server for software updates. It was discovered that yum-rhn-plug...