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

[Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>]

On 04/03/15 11:14 AM, Donald Stufft wrote:
> > On Mar 4, 2015, at 12:55 PM, Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > ===
> >
> > 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.

Yup, I am aware of that, but as you know Red Hat is pretty conservative
on updates to things like Python/etc because we have to support customer
applications that we have never seen and will never see (e.g. internal
corp software), and if we break those apps due to changes in underlying
languages there is a big problem.

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> Donald Stufft
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