#1697 Freeze break request for links, elinks and nss_compat_ossl
Closed: Fixed None Opened 14 years ago by lkundrak.

A bulk request, these three are related somehow. Please vote on them separately.
I maintian one of these packages, maintainers of the other agree with these being submitted for dist-f11.

nss_compat_ossl-0.9.5-3.fc11
* This adds implementation of SSL_CTX_set_default_verify_paths()
* links' and elinks' use of default CA bundle is dependent on this. Without it, all certificates are considered invalid
* Without this function, https implementation in both links and elinks is nonfunctional
* I've tested that handling of trusted, untrusted, valid and expired certification in both links and elinks works as expected. I am not aware of any other software using that function

elinks-0.12-0.13.pre3.fc11
* This release enables verification of certificates
* Without it any certificate (untrusted, self-signed, expired) is accepted without a warning, which can be considered a security problem!
* Without this fix, users of elinks are exposed to a security risk
* See above for testing I've conducted

links-0.12-0.13.pre3.fc11
* This release fixes the Epoch so that elinks doesn't obsolete it
* It contains no other change
* What is currently tagged in dist-f11 already contains the security fix the above elinks build adds
* Without this fix people would not be able to install the package, since elinks obsoletes it


Sorry the last NVR should have been links-2.2-9.fc11

Tiny justification: elinks-0.12-0.13.pre3.fc11 does not depend on the new release of nss_compat_ossl. It can read CA bundle in PEM format from /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt with the current nss_compat_ossl and reads it by default.

Tagged the first two, but there is no links of that version.

Did you mean links-2.2-9.fc11?

Replying to [comment:5 wtogami]:

Did you mean links-2.2-9.fc11?

Yup, see the [comment:1 first comment]

Metadata Update from @lkundrak:
- Issue set to the milestone: Fedora 11 Final

7 years ago

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