[DRE-maint] Bug#970932: ruby-oauth: CVE-2016-11086

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: ruby-oauth
Version: 0.5.4-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/oauth-xx/oauth-ruby/issues/137
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for ruby-oauth.

CVE-2016-11086[0]:
| lib/oauth/consumer.rb in the oauth-ruby gem through 0.5.4 for Ruby
| does not verify server X.509 certificates if a certificate bundle
| cannot be found, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof
| servers and obtain sensitive information.


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-2016-11086
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-11086
[1] https://github.com/oauth-xx/oauth-ruby/issues/137

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore