Bug 876862 (CVE-2014-3230) - VUL-0: CVE-2014-3230: perl-LWP-Protocol-https: Environment variables HTTPS_CA_DIR or HTTPS_CA_FILE disable hostname verification
Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2014-3230: perl-LWP-Protocol-https: Environment variables HTTPS_CA...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2014-3230
Product: SUSE Security Incidents
Classification: Novell Products
Component: Incidents (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other openSUSE 13.1
: P3 - Medium : Major
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URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/98628/
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Reported: 2014-05-08 10:13 UTC by Johannes Segitz
Modified: 2019-07-08 14:25 UTC (History)
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Description Johannes Segitz 2014-05-08 10:13:16 UTC 
Reported by Kurt Seifried on oss-security (Message-ID: <53640609.10003@redhat.com>)

Setting the environment variables HTTPS_CA_DIR or HTTPS_CA_FILE disable hostname verification. So every valid certificate is accepted, regardless of the CN.

Patch is available in 
https://github.com/libwww-perl/lwp-protocol-https/pull/14

References:
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2014/CVE-2014-3230.html
Comment 1 Swamp Workflow Management 2014-05-08 22:00:25 UTC 
bugbot adjusting priority
Comment 2 Bernhard Wiedemann 2014-05-15 11:00:17 UTC 
This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (876862) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/234143 13.1+12.3 / perl-LWP-Protocol-https
Comment 5 Bernhard Wiedemann 2014-05-15 13:00:13 UTC 
This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (876862) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/234175 Factory / perl-LWP-Protocol-https
Comment 6 Swamp Workflow Management 2014-05-23 12:04:23 UTC 
openSUSE-SU-2014:0710-1: An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Category: security (low)
Bug References: 876862
CVE References: CVE-2014-3230
Sources used:
openSUSE 13.1 (src):    perl-LWP-Protocol-https-6.04-2.4.1
openSUSE 12.3 (src):    perl-LWP-Protocol-https-6.03-4.4.1
Comment 7 Johannes Segitz 2014-05-23 12:20:58 UTC 
openSUSE released and SLE12 fixed