Bug#492434: pidgin: Connects to Jabber server with bad SSL certificates, without warning

2008-08-06 Thread Ari Pollak
On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 14:43 -0400, Ethan Blanton wrote: > Whoops, an excellent point. You might want to simply use the attached > (untested, but compiles and looks rather trivial) patch, instead, > which is from upstream. It is upstream revision > 90ed1fb17982cbb6355d5dd32d041b8c0027509b and > 19

Bug#492434: pidgin: Connects to Jabber server with bad SSL certificates, without warning

2008-08-06 Thread Ethan Blanton
Ari Pollak spake unto us the following wisdom: > As far as I can tell, --with-system-ssl-certs doesn't exist in 2.4.3. Whoops, an excellent point. You might want to simply use the attached (untested, but compiles and looks rather trivial) patch, instead, which is from upstream. It is upstream re

Bug#492434: pidgin: Connects to Jabber server with bad SSL certificates, without warning

2008-08-06 Thread Ari Pollak
As far as I can tell, --with-system-ssl-certs doesn't exist in 2.4.3. On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 13:03 -0400, Ethan Blanton wrote: > Why is a patch necessary to enable /etc/ssl/certs? Does > --with-system-ssl-certs= not do what you need? If so, we should fix > it, rather than applying additional hack

Bug#492434: pidgin: Connects to Jabber server with bad SSL certificates, without warning

2008-08-06 Thread Ethan Blanton
Why is a patch necessary to enable /etc/ssl/certs? Does --with-system-ssl-certs= not do what you need? If so, we should fix it, rather than applying additional hacks. Ethan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#492434: pidgin: Connects to Jabber server with bad SSL certificates, without warning

2008-08-03 Thread Miron Cuperman
As requested, NSS patch submitted to Pidgin in forwarded bug report, so there's no need to switch to GNUTLS. However, the second half of the patch above is still needed to grab CA certs from /etc/ssl/certs. Attaching just that part. --- pidgin-2.4.1/libpurple/certificate.c +++ pidgin-2.4.1.n

Bug#492434: pidgin: Connects to Jabber server with bad SSL certificates, without warning

2008-08-02 Thread Ari Pollak
If what you say is correct, then most Pidgin installations are not verifying certificates correctly and this isn't just a Debian problem. Any patch needs to address the real issue, especially since upstream has discouraged using GNUTLS. Miron Cuperman wrote: > I believe this bug was introduced wit

Bug#492434: pidgin: Connects to Jabber server with bad SSL certificates, without warning

2008-08-02 Thread Tyler MacDonald
tags 492434 patch thanks Miron Cuperman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe this bug was introduced with the "fix" for bug #401567. > > At that time, the SSL implementation was changed from GNUTLS to NSS. > Unfortunately, the NSS plugin in pidgin does no certificate checking at > all, mea

Bug#492434: pidgin: Connects to Jabber server with bad SSL certificates, without warning

2008-08-02 Thread Miron Cuperman
I believe this bug was introduced with the "fix" for bug #401567. At that time, the SSL implementation was changed from GNUTLS to NSS. Unfortunately, the NSS plugin in pidgin does no certificate checking at all, meaning that any certificate is accepted (including malformed or self-signed ones

Bug#492434: pidgin: Connects to Jabber server with bad SSL certificates without warning

2008-07-27 Thread Ari Pollak
Is the server certificate present in /etc/ssl/certs or Tools->Certificates? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#492434: pidgin: Connects to Jabber server with bad SSL certificates without warning

2008-07-25 Thread Josh Triplett
Package: pidgin Version: 2.4.3-1 Severity: grave Tags: security Justification: user security hole I recently set up a Jabber server. I used the default snakeoil certificate. When I configured Pidgin to connect to my new server, using SSL, it connected without any complaint whatsoever. - Josh Tr