Re: Another Python app (rhn-setup: rhnreg_ks) not checking hostnames in certs properly CVE-2015-1777

[Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>]

On 06/03/15 06:08 AM, John Haxby wrote:
> On 06/03/15 01:02, Kurt Seifried wrote:
> > Please contact your TAM/GSS with this request, it carries a lot
> > more impact if customers want something that we also want.
>
>
> I know "me too" isn't helpful, but I'm going to say "me too" anyway.
>
> It occurred to me that we could have a patch that has a global switch
> (eg a file in, say, /etc/sysconfig and a corresponding switch for
> individual applications) that switches on the correct behaviour.   I
> know it's a bit of a mess, but that way people who don't care will
> continue in blissful ignorance and people that do care can do
> something about it.

That would be one way. But why can't Oracle build it and open source it?
Oracle has a Linux distribution too I thought? Or do you need Red Hat
engineering to do it first? If so as I said, customer cases carry far
more weight than oss-security for feature requests.

> jch


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