[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: perl-LWP-Protocol-https-6.04-4.fc20

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-6303
2014-05-13 04:00:52
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Name        : perl-LWP-Protocol-https
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 6.04
Release     : 4.fc20
URL         : http://search.cpan.org/dist/LWP-Protocol-https/
Summary     : Provide HTTPS support for LWP::UserAgent
Description :
The LWP::Protocol::https module provides support for using HTTPS schemed
URLs with LWP. This module is a plug-in to the LWP protocol handling, so
you don't use it directly. Once the module is installed LWP is able to
access sites using HTTP over SSL/TLS.

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Update Information:

This release fixes a server certification validation when a certificate authority is defined by HTTPS_CA_DIR or HTTPS_CA_FILE environement variable.
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ChangeLog:

* Mon May 12 2014 Petr Pisar <ppisar at redhat.com> - 6.04-4
- Fix CVE-2014-3230 (incorrect handling of SSL certificate verification if
  HTTPS_CA_DIR or HTTPS_CA_FILE environment variables are set) (bug #1094442)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1094440 - CVE-2014-3230 perl-libwww-perl: incorrect handling of SSL certificate verification
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1094440
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