Bug 1425746 (CVE-2017-2629)

Summary: CVE-2017-2629 curl: SSL_VERIFYSTATUS ignored
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: bmcclain, cfergeau, dblechte, eedri, erik-fedora, hhorak, jorton, kdudka, lsurette, luhliari, mgoldboi, michal.skrivanek, mike, omajid, paul, rbalakri, rh-spice-bugs, sardella, sherold, srevivo, ykaul, ylavi
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Description Adam Mariš 2017-02-22 09:56:17 UTC 
A coding mistake was found in TLS Certificate Status Request extension feature that asks for a fresh proof of the server's certificate's validity in the code that checks for a test success or failure. It ends up always thinking there's valid proof, even when there is none or if the server doesn't support the TLS extension in question. Contrary to how it used to function and contrary to how this feature is documented to work.

This could lead to users not detecting when a server's certificate goes invalid or otherwise be mislead that the server is in a better shape than it is in reality. This flaw also exists in the command line tool (--cert-status).

Affected versions: 7.52.0 to and including 7.52.1
Not affected versions: < 7.52.0 and >= 7.53.0

Upstream patch:

https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2017-2629.patch

External References:

https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20170222.html
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-02-22 09:58:11 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: the Curl project
Upstream: Marcus Hoffmann
Comment 2 Kamil Dudka 2017-02-22 15:33:01 UTC 
Luckily, this bug has never reached any stable release of Fedora.  Rawhide is fixed since curl-7.53.0-1.fc26 via:

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/curl.git/commit/?id=8afeb939