oss-security - Re: CVE Request -- rpm (X >= 4.10 and X < 3d74c43 commit): Signature checking function returned success on (possibly malicious ) rpm packages

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Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 11:39:20 -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>,
        Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- rpm (X >= 4.10 and X < 3d74c43
 commit): Signature checking function returned success on (possibly malicious
 ) rpm packages

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On 01/03/2013 10:30 AM, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
> Hello Kurt, Steve, vendors,
> 
> RPM upstream has corrected the following security issue: [1]
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796375 Relevant
> upstream patch: [2]
> http://rpm.org/gitweb?p=rpm.git;a=commitdiff;h=3d74c43
> 
> Affected rpm versions include rpm >= 4.10.0 [3] and < than [2]
> commit.
> 
> An attacker could use this flaw to create a syntactically valid
> rpm package, that could bypass the signature check.
> 
> Could you allocate a CVE id for this?
> 
> Thank you && Regards, Jan. -- Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat
> Security Response Team
> 
> [3] http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.10.0
> 

Please use CVE-2012-6088 for this issue.

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

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