Re: CVE Request: AWS s2n

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori () amzn com>]

Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com> writes:

> On 07/14/2015 04:03 PM, Markus Vervier wrote:
> > On 14.07.2015 17:48, Kurt Seifried wrote:
> > > Reminder: Client mode is disabled and won't be enabled until X509 validation is ready. But we
> > can still make improvements and fixes in the meantime.
> > > so I'm not sure this needs a CVE as the code is not yet enabled.
> > Hi Kurt,
> >
> > that is a valid point from you and not for me to decide.
> > Yet with default settings a binary is compiled (bin/s2nc) which will
> > work in client mode when environment variable S2N_ENABLE_CLIENT_MODE=1
> > is set (as documented). So it is possible several people were tempted to
> > use s2n in client mode already as the client mode code is actually
> > compiled into the lib and useable by default.
> > I guess it depends on your definition of "enabled".
> >
> > Markus
>
> Ah, I didn't know that, Mitre I'm leaving this one up to you (way to
> much of a gray area for me to even poke with a stick).

Adding Colm from s2n upstream in case he would like to comment here.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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