Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 18:52:33 +0000 (UTC) From: Olli Hauer <ohauer@FreeBSD.org> To: ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r364638 - head/security/vuxml Message-ID: <53e910f1.2bfe.21ab371b@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: ohauer Date: Mon Aug 11 18:52:33 2014 New Revision: 364638 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/364638 QAT: https://qat.redports.org/buildarchive/r364638/ Log: - document serf CVE-2014-3504 MFH: 2014Q3 Modified: head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml Modified: head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml ============================================================================== --- head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml Mon Aug 11 18:42:37 2014 (r364637) +++ head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml Mon Aug 11 18:52:33 2014 (r364638) @@ -57,6 +57,42 @@ Notes: --> <vuxml xmlns="http://www.vuxml.org/apps/vuxml-1">; + <vuln vid="69048656-2187-11e4-802c-20cf30e32f6d"> + <topic>serf -- SSL Certificate Null Byte Poisoning</topic> + <affects> + <package> + <name>serf</name> + <range><lt>1.3.7</lt></range> + </package> + </affects> + <description> + <body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">; + <p>serf Development list reports:</p> + <blockquote cite="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/serf-dev/NvgPoK6sFsc">; + <p>Serf provides APIs to retrieve information about a certificate. These + APIs return the information as NUL terminated strings (commonly called C + strings). X.509 uses counted length strings which may include a NUL byte. + This means that a library user will interpret any information as ending + upon seeing this NUL byte and will only see a partial value for that field. + </p> + <p>Attackers could exploit this vulnerability to create a certificate that a + client will accept for a different hostname than the full certificate is + actually for by embedding a NUL byte in the certificate.</p> + <p>This can lead to a man-in-the-middle attack. There are no known instances + of this problem being exploited in the wild and in practice it should be + difficult to actually exploit this vulnerability.</p> + </blockquote> + </body> + </description> + <references> + <cvename>CVE-2014-3504</cvename> + </references> + <dates> + <discovery>2014-08-06</discovery> + <entry>2014-08-11</entry> + </dates> + </vuln> + <vuln vid="83a418cc-2182-11e4-802c-20cf30e32f6d"> <topic>subversion -- several vulnerabilities</topic> <affects>
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