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Bug 441906 (CVE-2012-5821) - <www-client/lynx-2.8.8_rc1: Does not verify that the server's certificate is signed by a trusted certification authority (CVE-2012-5821)
Summary: <www-client/lynx-2.8.8_rc1: Does not verify that the server's certificate is ...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2012-5821
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal minor (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=C...
Whiteboard: B4 [noglsa]
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Reported: 2012-11-05 17:40 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified: 2014-03-06 04:07 UTC (History)
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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2012-11-05 17:40:45 UTC 
From https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873262 :

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2012-5821 to the following 
vulnerability:

Lynx does not verify that the server's certificate is signed by a trusted certification authority, 
which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via a crafted certificate, related to 
improper use of a certain GnuTLS function.

References:
[1] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf
[2] https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/pubs/abstracts/ssl-client-bugs.html
[3] http://www.sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2012/techprogram.shtml
Comment 1 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2012-11-07 23:31:59 UTC 
CVE-2012-5821 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-5821):
  Lynx does not verify that the server's certificate is signed by a trusted
  certification authority, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof
  SSL servers via a crafted certificate, related to improper use of a certain
  GnuTLS function.
Comment 2 Chris Reffett (RETIRED) gentoo-dev Security 2013-12-22 18:54:40 UTC 
Arches, please stabilize:
=www-client/lynx-2.8.8_rc1
Target arches: alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 sparc x86
Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-12-22 19:21:14 UTC 
Stable for HPPA.
Comment 4 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2013-12-22 19:22:03 UTC 
amd64 stable
Comment 5 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2013-12-23 11:25:08 UTC 
ppc stable
Comment 6 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2013-12-23 12:03:38 UTC 
ppc64 stable
Comment 7 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2013-12-23 14:26:01 UTC 
alpha stable
Comment 8 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2013-12-23 14:48:48 UTC 
x86 stable
Comment 9 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2013-12-23 14:53:00 UTC 
sparc stable
Comment 10 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2014-01-05 09:10:28 UTC 
arm stable
Comment 11 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2014-01-12 13:18:10 UTC 
ia64 stable.

Maintainer(s), please cleanup.
Security, please vote.
Comment 12 Chris Reffett (RETIRED) gentoo-dev Security 2014-01-12 13:57:43 UTC 
GLSA vote: no
Comment 13 Sergey Popov gentoo-dev 2014-01-20 14:29:00 UTC 
GLSA vote: no

Waiting for cleanup
Comment 14 Tim Harder gentoo-dev 2014-03-06 03:41:33 UTC 
(In reply to Sergey Popov from comment #13)
> Waiting for cleanup

Done.
Comment 15 Yury German Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev 2014-03-06 04:07:31 UTC 
Maintainer(s), Thank you for cleanup!