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Re: rubygems insecure download (and other problems)
From: Donald Stufft <donald () stufft io>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:02:36 -0400
On Aug 14, 2013, at 4:59 PM, Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com> wrote:
Signed PGP part I don't think this is CVE worthy, but it is worth fixing and not putting everyone at such risk: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=834785 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=997179 Problem #1: install /etc/gemrc to install gems via https rather than http everyone should be enabling HTTPS where possible, intercepting and modifying HTTP is trivial. Problem #2: it redirects to production.cf.rubygems.org which is on cloudfront so has certificate mismatch, so either users have to accept insecurity, or... well there is no second choice =(. https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=production.cf.rubygems.org - -- Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT) PGP: 0x5E267993 A90B F995 7350 148F 66BF 7554 160D 4553 5E26 7993
pip has a CVE for downloading via HTTP, does switching the gem to HTTPS actually make gem verify it? https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-1629 ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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- Re: rubygems insecure download (and other problems) Marcus Meissner (Aug 15)
- Re: rubygems insecure download (and other problems) Henri Salo (Aug 15)
- Re: rubygems insecure download (and other problems) Kurt Seifried (Aug 15)
- RE: rubygems insecure download (and other problems) Christey, Steven M. (Aug 15)
- Re: rubygems insecure download (and other problems) Marcus Meissner (Aug 15)
- Re: rubygems insecure download (and other problems) Donald Stufft (Aug 14)
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- Re: HTTPS (was: rubygems insecure download (and other problems)) Donald Stufft (Aug 14)