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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 09:23:38 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Raphael Geissert <geissert@...ian.org>
Subject: Re: Re: CVE request: radsecproxy incorrect x.509 certificate
 validation

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On 10/30/2012 01:46 PM, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> On Wednesday 17 October 2012 12:48:19 Raphael Geissert wrote:
>> Ralf Paffrath discovered that radsecproxy may incorrectly accept
>> a client certificate if the certificates chain was validated with
>> the CA settings of one configuration block but the other
>> certificate constraints failed, and the certificate constraints
>> of another configuration block passed (ignoring this other config
>> block's CA settings.)
>> 
>> This issue has been fixed in version 1.6.1. However, it
>> introduces a minor regression as it ignores some configuration
>> blocks (see the references for further details.)
> 
> While checking the issue I noticed that the same issue also affects
>  radsecproxy's DTLS support, which was not fixed. Upstream has now
> released version 1.6.2 addressing the vulnerability in its DTLS
> support code.
> 
> Now, the thing is that upstream re-used the previously assigned CVE
> id CVE-2012-4523. According to the guidelines a new id should be
> assigned since they affect different versions even if the issues
> are related.
> 
> So, I guess a new id is in order?
> 
> References: 
> http://git.nordu.net/?p=radsecproxy.git;a=commit;h=3682c935facf5ccd7fa600644bbb76957155c680
>
> 
https://postlister.uninett.no/sympa/arc/radsecproxy/2012-10/msg00001.html
> https://project.nordu.net/browse/RADSECPROXY-43
> 
> Regards,

Correct, different versions = different CVEs typically. Please use
CVE-2012-4566  for this issue. For reference:

http://cve.mitre.org/cve/editorial_policies/cd_abstraction.html

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

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