Bug 1367573
Summary: | Remove several legacy CAs, as of upstream update 2.10 | ||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Kai Engert (:kaie) (inactive account) <kengert> |
Component: | ca-certificates | Assignee: | Kai Engert (:kaie) (inactive account) <kengert> |
Status: | CLOSED CANTFIX | QA Contact: | Stanislav Zidek <szidek> |
Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | unspecified | ||
Version: | 6.8 | CC: | ksrot, nmavrogi, szidek |
Target Milestone: | rc | ||
Target Release: | 6.9 | ||
Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
OS: | Unspecified | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
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Last Closed: | 2017-08-31 13:25:35 UTC | Type: | Bug |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Bug Depends On: | 1386679, 1386680, 1386683 | ||
Bug Blocks: | 1339235 |
Description
Kai Engert (:kaie) (inactive account)
2016-08-16 20:14:49 UTC
The previous comment lists 9 CAs. Although the sum of the mentioned links is 10 CAs, apparently one of the CAs isn't part of our legacy handling. This is blocked by the bugs on the dependency list. These 1024-bit CAs, which have been completely removed by Mozilla in version 2.10, are still referenced by a significant percentage of sites in the public web, which include (optional) intermediate CAs in the chains sent out by the servers, which point to the legacy CAs. Removing these CAs, or in other words, no longer trusting them, would have the consequence that applications, which are based on OpenSSL, GnuTLS and glib-networking (and possibly others), could no longer verify certificates from the affected servers, and as a result, would refuse to connect to them by default. In order to avoid this regression, I've been asked to not perform this removal at this time. Two dependency bugs have been marked as wontfix. I'm afraid this means this one cannot be fixed either. |