Re: [PATCH 0/1] curl: Fix CVE-2016-3739.

[ng0]

On 2016-06-13(05:07:23+0200), Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:
>
> > On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 09:02:32PM +0000, ng0 wrote:
> >> On 2016-06-12(10:51:14+0200), Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> >> > Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:
> >> >
> >> > > If your SSL / TLS provider is mbedTLS (formerly PolarSSL), there is a
> >> > > bug in curl [CVE-2016-3739] that allows an attacker to bypass the full
> >> > > certificate check by presenting any valid certificate.
> >> > >
> >> > > So, you might think are connecting to https://example.com, when in fact
> >> > > the attacker has a certificate for any other domain.
> >> > >
> >> > > We don't package mbedTLS, but I still think we should provide the fixed
> >> > > source code.
> >> >
> >> > OTOH this will incur additional grafting for no reason, WDYT?
> >
> > No reason for things built within our distribution, true.
>
> Right.
>
> >> fyi,
> >>
> >> mbedtls is on my list of packages to do, as the webserver hiawatha
> >> depends on it.
> >>
> >> Should I announce once it is packaged and the cve fix can be applied
> >> afterwards?
> >
> > We should definitely update curl on core-updates-next, or whatever is
> > built after the current cycle, and we should not add hiawatha until the
> > fixed curl is in our tree.
>
> Agreed on both points.  Can you already push the curl update in
> core-updates-next?
>
> Though I would like the default curl package to still used GnuTLS.  So I
> think curl-with-mbedtls will be a different package anyway.
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
>

From the way it was done in Gentoo, I assume this is not needed?
mbedtls is a separate package, and I have libressl as the curlssl provider,
which is a curl built against libressl.

If I am wrong, correct me.
My initial comment was a bit out of place, but I just assume it will
justwork™ on guix, otherwise a curl-with-mbedtls would have to be
created.

Sorry for the confusion.

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