oss-security - Re: CVE Request: evolution-data-server lacks SSL checking in its libsoup users

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Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 10:03:20 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Steve Beattie <steve@...w.org>
Subject: Re: CVE Request: evolution-data-server lacks SSL checking
 in its libsoup users

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On 05/04/2012 02:30 AM, Steve Beattie wrote:
> On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 10:03:11AM +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I've made the launchpad bug public now. There was no CVE assigned 
> in that report.
> 
> Thanks.
> 

Shouldn't these all be covered by the libsoup CVE:

> libsoup 2.32.2 does not verify certificates at all if an 
> application does not explicitly specify a file with trusted root 
> CA's. Since that libsoup version relies on the verification
> failure to clear the trust flag it always considers ssl connections
> as trusted in that case.
> 
> Reference: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=758431
> 
> cu Ludwig
> 
Please use CVE-2012-2132 for this issue.



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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
PGP: 0x5E267993 A90B F995 7350 148F 66BF 7554 160D 4553 5E26 7993

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