Bug 1831694 (CVE-2020-7041) - CVE-2020-7041 openfortivpn: mishandling of certificate validation due to X509_check_host negative error code
Summary: CVE-2020-7041 openfortivpn: mishandling of certificate validation due to X509...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2020-7041
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2020-05-05 13:56 UTC by Dhananjay Arunesh
Modified: 2021-10-28 05:26 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-10-28 05:26:06 UTC
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Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2020-05-05 13:56:36 UTC 
An issue was discovered in openfortivpn 1.11.0 when used with OpenSSL 1.0.2 or later. tunnel.c mishandles certificate validation because an X509_check_host negative error code is interpreted as a successful return value.

References:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00009.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00011.html
https://github.com/adrienverge/openfortivpn/commit/cd9368c6a1b4ef91d77bb3fdbe2e5bc34aa6f4c4
https://github.com/adrienverge/openfortivpn/issues/536
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FF6HYIBREQGATRM5COF57MRQWKOKCWZ3/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SRVVNXCNTNMPCIAZIVR4FAGYCSU53FNA/
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