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Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 10:16:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: alessandro@...dini.me
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request: zeromq downgrade attack

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> https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/issues/1273
> https://github.com/zeromq/zeromq4-x/commit/b6e3e0f601e2c1ec1f3aac880ed6a3fe63043e51
> https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3255

Use CVE-2014-9721.

> // Is the peer using ZMTP/1.0 with no revision number?
> if (greeting_recv [0] != 0xff || !(greeting_recv [9] & 0x01)) {
>     if (session->zap_enabled ()) {
>         // Reject ZMTP 1.0 connections if ZAP is enabled
>         error ();
> 
> if (greeting_recv [revision_pos] == ZMTP_1_0) {
>     if (session->zap_enabled ()) {
>         // Reject ZMTP 1.0 connections if ZAP is enabled
>         error ();
> 
> if (greeting_recv [revision_pos] == ZMTP_2_0) {
>     if (session->zap_enabled ()) {
>         // Reject ZMTP 1.0 connections if ZAP is enabled
>         error ();

We think there is essentially only one vulnerability, and it was fixed
by that commit, but it is somewhat confusing because of an apparent
typo in a comment. Shouldn't the "== ZMTP_2_0" test have a "Reject
ZMTP 2.0" comment?

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