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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:02:36 -0400
From: Donald Stufft <donald@...fft.io>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com,
kseifried@...hat.com
Subject: Re: rubygems insecure download (and other problems)
On Aug 14, 2013, at 4:59 PM, Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com> wrote:
> Signed PGP part
> I don't think this is CVE worthy, but it is worth fixing and not
> putting everyone at such risk:
>
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=834785
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=997179
>
> Problem #1:
> install /etc/gemrc to install gems via https rather than http
>
> everyone should be enabling HTTPS where possible, intercepting and
> modifying HTTP is trivial.
>
> Problem #2:
> it redirects to production.cf.rubygems.org which is on cloudfront so
> has certificate mismatch, so either users have to accept insecurity,
> or... well there is no second choice =(.
>
> https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=production.cf.rubygems.org
>
> - --
> Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
> PGP: 0x5E267993 A90B F995 7350 148F 66BF 7554 160D 4553 5E26 7993
>
pip has a CVE for downloading via HTTP, does switching the
gem to HTTPS actually make gem verify it?
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-1629
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Donald Stufft
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