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Re: Qt SSL endless loop


From: Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel () suse de>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:08:53 +0200

Raphael Geissert wrote:
[...]
He also reported another vulnerability in Qt4's SSL support:
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/qtsslame-adv.txt

(reported to the Debian maintainers in http://bugs.debian.org/587711)

Could a CVE be assigned for this other issue too?

Looks like the request got lost.

The fix seems to be
http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/commit/f7fe575bc5f628533aeeca3eb564af89a1a1426b

According to the Mumble author this fix causes a regression with peer
certificate validation when used with openssl >= 0.9.8n though:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=4C3F8BC6.9030303%40natvig.com&forum_name=mumble-packaging
http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-7200

cu
Ludwig

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