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Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 10:03:11 +0200
From: Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de>
To: OSS Security List <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: CVE Request: evolution-data-server lacks SSL checking in its libsoup users
On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 05:27:02PM +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The libsoup SSL certificate checking problem Ludwig exposed is drawing some
> circles.
>
> I started looking at the libsoup users, first one is evolution-data-server,
>
> None of the libsoup users there seem to handle SSL certificate trust correctly (or at all) in my eyes.
>
> In version 2.28 these are.
> Groupwise protocol handling (server/groupwise/e-gw-connection.c)
> Exchange protocol handling (server/exchange/lib/e2k-context.c)
> Google (servers/google/libgdata-google/gdata-google-service.c)
> calendar/backends/http/e-cal-backend-http.c
> calendar/backends/caldav/e-cal-backend-caldav.c
>
> I do not fully understand the correct solution to this yet though, whether we need
> to pass in additional flags, or evaluate the "trusted" flag after the connect.
>
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=760517
This was already reported:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671537
https://launchpad.net/bugs/933659 (private still)
so it might have a CVE already.
Ciao, Marcus
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