Re: [openssl-users] [openssl-announce] OpenSSL Security Advisory

2015-07-12 Thread Jeffrey Walton
>>> In fact, I thought that was the reason we all >>> had to wait ages before this long standing shortcoming >>> was fixed. >> >> It almost sound like you are complaining you did not have to wait ages :) > > It's the inconsistency of first insisting this cannot go > into a patch and then pushing ou

Re: [openssl-users] [openssl-announce] OpenSSL Security Advisory

2015-07-12 Thread Jakob Bohm
On 10/07/2015 23:03, Jeffrey Walton wrote: During certificate verification, OpenSSL (starting from version 1.0.1n and 1.0.2b) will attempt to find an alternative certificate chain if the first attempt to build such a chain fails. An error in the implementation of this logic can mean that an attac

Re: [openssl-users] [openssl-announce] OpenSSL Security Advisory

2015-07-10 Thread Jeffrey Walton
> During certificate verification, OpenSSL (starting from version 1.0.1n and > 1.0.2b) will attempt to find an alternative certificate chain if the first > attempt to build such a chain fails. An error in the implementation of this > logic can mean that an attacker could cause certain checks on unt

Re: [openssl-users] [openssl-announce] OpenSSL Security Advisory

2015-07-09 Thread Matt Caswell
On 09/07/15 22:46, Jakob Bohm wrote: > On 09/07/2015 15:10, OpenSSL wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> OpenSSL Security Advisory [9 Jul 2015] >> === >> >> Alternative chains certificate forgery (CVE-2015-1793) >> ==

Re: [openssl-users] [openssl-announce] OpenSSL Security Advisory

2015-07-09 Thread Jakob Bohm
On 09/07/2015 15:10, OpenSSL wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OpenSSL Security Advisory [9 Jul 2015] === Alternative chains certificate forgery (CVE-2015-1793) == Severity: High During