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Message-ID: <20150302172645.GC12838@gremlin.ru>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 20:26:45 +0300
From: gremlin@...mlin.ru
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: Maven downloads JARs via HTTP
On 2015-03-02 17:34:55 +0100, Martin Prpic wrote:
>>> "Maven Central can now be accessed via HTTPS. I think the
>>> default configuration should be switched to use that, rather
>>> than the current unsecured HTTP transport."
>> Does it use any sort of package signing and signature
>> verification?
> Seeing as the patch only does s/http/https/,
Obviously, that doesn't really help.
> I would say, unfortunately, no.
Well... it seems like we have yet another class of vulnerabilities
fully inducted by stupidity: "%s lacks integrity check on update".
--
Alexey V. Vissarionov aka Gremlin from Kremlin <gremlin ПРИ gremlin ТЧК ru>
GPG: 8832FE9FA791F7968AC96E4E909DAC45EF3B1FA8 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net
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