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Bug 656380 - yum-rhn-plugin: do not disable SSL server name check for XMLRPC communication
Summary: yum-rhn-plugin: do not disable SSL server name check for XMLRPC communication
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: yum-rhn-plugin
Version: 6.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Miroslav Suchý
QA Contact: Martin Minar
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Depends On:
Blocks: 637136
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-11-23 16:10 UTC by Tomas Hoger
Modified: 2016-07-04 00:55 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: yum-rhn-plugin-0.9.1-9
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-05-19 13:05:22 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2011:0565 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE rhn-client-tools and yum-rhn-plugin bug fix and ehnancement update 2011-05-18 17:57:10 UTC

Description Tomas Hoger 2010-11-23 16:10:37 UTC 
Description of problem:
rhnplugin currently overrides M2Crypto's SSL server name checks with bypass_m2crypto_ssl_connection_check function that always returns True.  As code comment suggests, this was added in RHEL-5 in response to bug #332011 to match up2date behaviour in RHEL-4 (which did not perform any name check).

As RHEL-6 uses urlgrabber/pycurl/curl for meta data and package downloads, such workaround will no longer be sufficient for those who needed, as the name check will be preformed and will fail with more confusing error messages.

To test, I configured serverURL to use xmlrpc.rhn name while making sure it still resolves to xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com IP (e.g. via /etc/hosts entry or domain/search redhat.com in /etc/resolv.conf).  I got following error:

# yum list updates
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: rhel-i386-server-6. Please verify its path and try again

When cached repomd.xml is already available, error message is bit more helpful:

# yum list updates
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin
Error: failed to retrieve repodata/08277a7eb7d631565a722898328acc33bbb86f4dcd7af3c0e7d6fca0f5d2be41-primary.xml.gz from rhel-i386-server-6
error was [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 51 - ""

(See bug #641943 for more discussion on the missing pycurl error message.)

It seems there's not much reason to keep that override when it's no longer of much use.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-rhn-plugin-0.9.1-5.el6


Additional info:
If RHEL-6 variant of bug #332011 is filed, it may be better to fix it in a way that the check is not bypassed by default.
Comment 3 Miroslav Suchý 2011-01-12 14:03:36 UTC 
I removed this override. But this will mean that dual homed RHN Proxies. But that is not supported anyway (see BZ 432058). User will still can use it, but without HTTPS.

Commited to spacewalk.git as commit a239c1ef754cc6149b1bc4af4a6afeb5bb833fed
cherrypicked to satellite.git as commit 5aca297aac12ed6a14b6808f009f2a891b039ead
Comment 5 Tomas Hoger 2011-01-12 15:22:53 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> But this will mean that dual homed RHN Proxies.

Some part of the sentence got lost.

> User will still can use it, but without HTTPS.

I'd expect certificates with multiple host names listed in subject alternate name extension should work too.
Comment 6 Miroslav Suchý 2011-01-12 15:34:29 UTC 
But this will mean that dual homed RHN Proxies will stop work. At least if you communicate with them over https. But that is not supported anyway (see BZ 432058). User will still can use it, but without HTTPS.
Comment 8 Martin Minar 2011-02-24 11:33:05 UTC 
Verified in yum-rhn-plugin-0.9.1-15.el6.noarch
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-19 13:05:22 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0565.html
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