RHSA-2008:0815Medium

Red Hat Security Advisory: yum-rhn-plugin security update

Published
August 14, 2008
Last Modified
November 21, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2008-3270 →

📋 Description

CVE-2008-3270 — yum-rhn-plugin: does not verify SSL certificate for all communication with RHN server

🎯 Affected products6

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • yum-rhn-plugin-0:0.5.3-12.el5_2.9.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • yum-rhn-plugin-0:0.5.3-12.el5_2.9.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • yum-rhn-plugin-0:0.5.3-12.el5_2.9.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • yum-rhn-plugin-0:0.5.3-12.el5_2.9.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)

✅ Remediation

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

🔗 References (4)