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Re: [Haskell-cafe] [ANN] tls-extra 0.6.1 - security update, please upgrade.



Hi,

Am Sonntag, den 20.01.2013, 06:50 +0100 schrieb Vincent Hanquez:
> this is a security advisory for tls-extra < 0.6.1 which are all vulnerable to bad
> certificate validation.
> 
> Some part of the certificate validation procedure were missing (relying on the
> work-in-progress x509 v3 extensions), and because of this anyone with a correct
> end-entity certificate can issue certificate for any arbitrary domain, i.e.
> acting as a CA.
> 
> This problem has been fixed in tls-extra 0.6.1, and I advise everyone to upgrade as
> soon as possible.
> 
> Despite a very serious flaw in the certificate validation, I'm happy that the
> code is seeing some audits, and would want to thanks Ertugrul Söylemez for the
> findings [1].

Debian ships tls-extras 0.4.6 in what will become wheezy, and due to the
freeze upgrading to a new major upstream release is not acceptable. 

Would it be possible for you to create a 0.4.6.1 with this bugfix
included?

Thanks a lot,
Joachim

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