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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:19:39 -0700
From: Kurt Seiifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Gajim fails to handle invalid certificates
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On 11/10/2012 09:02 PM, y33t wrote:
> Gajim does not seem to properly handle invalid/broken/expired
> certificates. The _ssl_verify_callback function in tls_nb.py is
> called by OpenSSL for every certificate in the certificate chain
> (CA first, server certificate last) but always return True whether
> an error was encountered or not.
>
> This forces OpenSSL to verify each certificate until none is left,
> at which points it will call _ssl_verify_callback one last time
> with an error number of 0.
>
> (This behavior is documented here: man 3 SSL_CTX_set_verify "If
> verify_callback returns 1, the verification process is continued.
> If verify_callback always returns 1, the TLS/SSL handshake will not
> be terminated with respect to verification failures and the
> connection will be established." And can be observed in function
> crypto/x509/x509_vfy.c:internal_verify() in OpenSSL source code.)
>
> _ssh_verify_callback only stores the last error code, which always
> is 0 unless an error was encountered in the deepest level of the
> chain (the CA), so gajim will not warn as long as the CA is
> recognized.
>
>
> (...)
>
> This problem goes beyond expired certificates. It is also possible
> to edit any existing and valid server certificate by changing the
> CN manually. The certificate's signature will be become invalid and
> OpenSSL will detect it and return errnum 7 ("Certificate signature
> failure") but gajim will not warn and will proceed with the
> connection anyway...
>
>
> References: https://trac.gajim.org/ticket/7252
So do we consider this to be an OpenSSL issue of gajim? I'm sure gajim
is not the only program that does something like this.
- --
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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