From: Matt Caswell Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 14:38:32 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Update CHANGES and NEWS for the new release X-Git-Tag: OpenSSL_1_0_1p~1 X-Git-Url: https://git.librecmc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=245daa2b733d66233450bab6880cd0afcddb61de;p=oweals%2Fopenssl.git Update CHANGES and NEWS for the new release Reviewed-by: Stephen Henson --- diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES index af27f3fdf5..7d4d2debfd 100644 --- a/CHANGES +++ b/CHANGES @@ -4,7 +4,18 @@ Changes between 1.0.1o and 1.0.1p [xx XXX xxxx] - *) + *) Alternate chains certificate forgery + + During certificate verfification, OpenSSL will attempt to find an + alternative certificate chain if the first attempt to build such a chain + fails. An error in the implementation of this logic can mean that an + attacker could cause certain checks on untrusted certificates to be + bypassed, such as the CA flag, enabling them to use a valid leaf + certificate to act as a CA and "issue" an invalid certificate. + + This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Adam Langley/David Benjamin + (Google/BoringSSL). + [Matt Caswell] Changes between 1.0.1n and 1.0.1o [12 Jun 2015] diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 1d81d4ccf3..c736b24730 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1o and OpenSSL 1.0.1p [under development] - o + o Alternate chains certificate forgery (CVE-2015-1793) Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1n and OpenSSL 1.0.1o [12 Jun 2015]