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Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 12:35:03 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>,
        "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>,
        Rex Dieter <rdieter@...h.unl.edu>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- qt: QSslSocket might report inappropriate
 errors when certificate verification fails

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On 01/04/2013 09:16 AM, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
> Hello Kurt, Steve, vendors,
> 
> Qt upstream has recently announced (upcoming) availability of Qt
> 4.8.5, Qt 4.7.6 and Qt 4.6.5 which (between other things) should 
> correct also the following security flaw:
> 
> A security flaw was found in the way QSslSocket implementation of
> the Qt, a software toolkit for applications development, performed
> certificate verification callbacks, when Qt libraries were used
> with different OpenSSL version than the one, they were compiled
> against. In such scenario, this would result in a connection error,
> but with the SSL error list to contain QSslError:NoError instead of
> proper reason of the error. This might result in a confusing error
> being presented to the end users, possibly encouraging them to
> ignore the SSL errors for the site the connection was initiated
> against.
> 
> References: [1]
> http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/announce/2013-January/000020.html
>
> 
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891955
> 
> Relevant upstream patch: [3]
> https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,42461
> 
> Could you allocate a CVE id for this?
> 
> Thank you && Regards, Jan. -- Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat
> Security Response Team
> 

Please use CVE-2012-6093 for this issue. The QT bug is from 2012 and
mentions the security impact.

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

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