Bug 873278

Summary:	CVE-2012-5821 lynx: Does not verify that the server's certificate is signed by a trusted certification authority [fedora-all]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	lynx	Assignee:	Kamil Dudka <kdudka>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	17	CC:	dickey, kdudka
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2012-11-06 16:11:22 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	873262

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2012-11-05 13:44:44 UTC

This is an automatically created tracking bug!  It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected versions
of Fedora.

For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed
against the "Security Response" product referenced in the "Blocks" field.

For more information see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/TrackingBugs

When creating a Bodhi update request, please use the bodhi submission link
noted in the next comment(s).  This will include the bug IDs of this
tracking bug as well as the relevant top-level CVE bugs.

Please also mention the CVE IDs being fixed in the RPM changelog and the
Bodhi notes field when available.

Please note: this issue affects multiple supported versions of Fedora.
Only one tracking bug has been filed; please ensure that it is only closed
when all affected versions are fixed.

[bug automatically created by: add-tracking-bugs]

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-11-05 13:44:50 UTC

Please use the following update submission link to create the Bodhi
request for this issue as it contains the top-level parent bug(s) as well
as this tracking bug.  This will ensure that all associated bugs get
updated when new packages are pushed to stable.

Please also ensure that the "Close bugs when update is stable" option
remains checked.

Bodhi update submission link:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/new/?type_=security&bugs=873262,873278

Comment 2 Thomas E. Dickey 2012-11-05 23:09:24 UTC

The problem describe here was fixed in mid-August -
   http://lynx.isc.org/current/2.8.8dev.13.patch.gz

Comment 3 Thomas E. Dickey 2012-11-06 02:05:52 UTC

Commenting on #873262, my recollection is that this affects Debian (and
derivations such as Ubuntu).

Comment 4 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-11-06 16:11:22 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> Commenting on #873262, my recollection is that this affects Debian (and
> derivations such as Ubuntu).

Thank you, Thomas. Yes, Kamil is right. Fedora lynx builds are not affected by this issue since we are building against OpenSSL. Closing this bug as invalid.