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

[Donald Stufft <donald () stufft io>]

> On Mar 4, 2015, at 12:55 PM, Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com> wrote:
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> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198740
>
> Jan Bee of the Google Security Team reports:
>
> The /usr/sbin/rhnreg_ks fails to properly validate hostnames in
> certificates. This can result in man in the middle attacks.
>
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>
> Please note that this issue cannot easily be exploited to cause any
> significant damage to a system other then preventing registration from
> taking place properly which the attacker would be able to do in any
> event if the can man in the middle the connection.
>
>
>
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> Kurt Seifried -- Red Hat -- Product Security -- Cloud
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Note: Python 2.7.9+ and 3.4.3+ will cause most apps like this to
automatically start validating hostnames. It may be easier to backport
those changes than to find every Python app that doesn’t check hostnames.

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