Bug 490703 - Please verify HTTPS certificates when downloading repodata/packages
Summary: Please verify HTTPS certificates when downloading repodata/packages
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: yum
Version: 11
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Seth Vidal
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: fedora-sha2
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Reported: 2009-03-17 17:38 UTC by Miloslav Trmač
Modified: 2014-01-21 23:08 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-09-03 15:30:35 UTC
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Description Miloslav Trmač 2009-03-17 17:38:23 UTC 
rawhide repodata uses HTTPS to download the metalink file, and later links to referenced repodata and packages contains their hashes, which protects against replacing any of the files.

Please add certificate verification to the HTTPS downloads (at least to the metalink download) to close the last opportunity for MITM attacks.  (python-urlgrabber 3.1.0 seems to support certificate verification, you can use the system-wide certificate bundle in  /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt ).
Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 12:19:21 UTC 
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Comment 2 seth vidal 2009-09-03 15:30:35 UTC 
urlgrabber in rawhide/f12 does this properly and by default.
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