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Message-ID: <50AF7BD8.1010605@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 14:36:24 +0100
From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Gajim fails to handle invalid certificates
On 11/14/2012 10:36 AM, Kurt Seifried wrote:
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> On 11/14/2012 02:19 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> On 11/14/2012 08:19 AM, Kurt Seiifried wrote:
>>
>>> So do we consider this to be an OpenSSL issue of gajim? I'm sure
>>> gajim is not the only program that does something like this.
>>
>> As far as I understand things, it is not necessarily at all to set
>> a verification callback in OpenSSL. If you load the root
>> certificate store and examine SSL_get_verify_result, that should be
>> sufficient. You can even look at the peer certificate and continue
>> anyway if the user has overridden the certificate validity. So
>> far, I haven't found a good reason to use a verify callback at all.
>> You need it to implement a custom PKIX validation policy, but that
>> should be pretty rare. (I still have to check older OpenSSL
>> versions, though, perhaps there, the behavior was different.)
>>
>> Anyway, if application developers set a verification callback, it
>> is their responsibility to implement it correctly. Therefore, I
>> don't think this is an OpenSSL issue.
>
> Makes sense, just wanted to confirm this problem resides within Gajim.
> Please use CVE-2012-5524 for this issue.
Regarding the OpenSSL behavior, there appears to be a related bug report:
<http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2768&user=guest&pass=guest>
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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team
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