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Message-ID: <28b86c79335873d36c900e0ddc3fd981@hub.kern.lc>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 18:43:24 +0200
From: Philipp Kern <pkern@...ian.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: armin@...ur.net, cve-assign@...re.org
Subject: Re: CVE request: libinfinity did not correctly check certificates
for validity
[Adding MITRE's cve-assign alias to the Cc]
On 2015-05-12 08:44, Philipp Kern wrote:
> Debian bug #783601[1] reported that Gobby - a collaborative text editor
> - silently accepted expired certificates. The upstream bug report is
> [2]. The bug is actually in libinfinity and the fix is available on
> [2].
>
> libinfinity does support certificate pinning and hence contains the
> ability to disable some checks like trusted issuer and hostname
> verification. However the catch-all validity check was in the wrong
> location.
>
> Please assign a CVE ID for this.
>
> Kind regards and thanks
> Philipp Kern
>
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=783601
> [2] https://github.com/gobby/gobby/issues/61
> [3]
> https://github.com/gobby/libinfinity/commit/c97f870f5ae13112988d9f8ad464b4f679903706
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