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Date: Sat, 05 May 2012 17:57:43 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de>, Steve Beattie <steve@...w.org>
Subject: Re: CVE Request: evolution-data-server lacks SSL checking
in its libsoup users
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On 05/04/2012 01:44 PM, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 10:03:20AM -0600, Kurt Seifried wrote:
>> On 05/04/2012 02:30 AM, Steve Beattie wrote:
>>> On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 10:03:11AM +0200, Marcus Meissner
>>> wrote:
>>>> This was already reported:
>>>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671537
>>>> https://launchpad.net/bugs/933659 (private still)
>>>>
>>>> so it might have a CVE already.
>>>
>>> I've made the launchpad bug public now. There was no CVE
>>> assigned in that report.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>
>> Shouldn't these all be covered by the libsoup CVE:
>>
>>> libsoup 2.32.2 does not verify certificates at all if an
>>> application does not explicitly specify a file with trusted
>>> root CA's. Since that libsoup version relies on the
>>> verification failure to clear the trust flag it always
>>> considers ssl connections as trusted in that case.
>>>
>>> Reference: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=758431
>>>
>>> cu Ludwig
>>>
>> Please use CVE-2012-2132 for this issue.
>
> That really depends if it is the task of libsoup or the task of
> the applications I think. So who is lacking the checks...
>
> Our opinion is that the default should be "good" in libsoup, so a
> CVE is needed there in all cases.
>
> Ciao, Marcus
Ok, if someone wants to make a list of the affected libsoup users with
links and whatnot that are using libsoup and fixing their use of it
feel free to post it so I can get them CVEs as needed.
- --
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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