Bug#510417: links2: silently accepts bad SSL certificates

2009-06-30 Thread gurkan
Hello It's true that links doesn't visually noticed the user in such case. I see the following solutions: 1 Disable https support 2 Notify the user about this behaviour in README.Debian 3 Somehow notify the user (I think I talked to Karel about this problem, when I got the report but he

Bug#510417: links2: silently accepts bad SSL certificates

2009-03-25 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Neil Moore [Thu, 01 Jan 2009 11:57:35 -0500]: Package: links2 Version: 2.2-1 Severity: grave Tags: security Justification: user security hole Hello, Neil. I’m sorry I’m not mailing you to help solve this bug, since I’m not the maintainer of links2. I do release management in Debian, and

Bug#510417: links2: silently accepts bad SSL certificates

2009-03-25 Thread Neil Moore
Adeodato Simó writes: * Neil Moore [Thu, 01 Jan 2009 11:57:35 -0500]: Package: links2 Version: 2.2-1 Severity: grave Tags: security Justification: user security hole Hello, Neil. I’m sorry I’m not mailing you to help solve this bug, since I’m not the maintainer of links2. I do

Bug#510417: links2: silently accepts bad SSL certificates

2009-01-01 Thread Neil Moore
Package: links2 Version: 2.2-1 Severity: grave Tags: security Justification: user security hole Links2 does not validate certificates it receives; as a result, there is no warning that one is visiting a page with an expired certificate, a certificate not signed by a trusted authority, or a