Re: [ANNOUNCE] NSS 3.12.3.1 Release

2009-07-31 Thread Nelson Bolyard
On 2009-07-31 12:38 PDT, Ian G wrote: On 31/07/2009 11:29, William L. Hartzell wrote: Nelson B Bolyard wrote: Some lax CAs will evidently issue certs with just about anything in the DNS names. I'd pull the plug on them if I could find them, but the presenters at Black Hat were careful NOT to

[ANNOUNCE] NSS 3.12.3.1 Release

2009-07-30 Thread Wan-Teh Chang
The NSS 3.12.3.1 release is now available. The CVS tag is NSS_3_12_3_1_RTM. You can download the source tarball from https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/NSS_3_12_3_1_RTM/src/ NSS 3.12.3.1 requires NSPR 4.7.4 or later. NSS 3.12.3.1 fixes the following bugs in NSS

Re: [ANNOUNCE] NSS 3.12.3.1 Release

2009-07-30 Thread Howard Chu
Wan-Teh Chang wrote: The NSS 3.12.3.1 release is now available. The CVS tag is NSS_3_12_3_1_RTM. You can download the source tarball from https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/NSS_3_12_3_1_RTM/src/ As far as I can see, CERT_VerifyCertName() is still vulnerable to the

Re: [ANNOUNCE] NSS 3.12.3.1 Release

2009-07-30 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
On 2009-07-30 19:04 PDT, Howard Chu wrote: As far as I can see, CERT_VerifyCertName() is still vulnerable to the embedded NUL hack that was recently published here http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/kaminsky/ and on slashdot. Yet some comments in the discussion say that Firefox 3.5 is

Re: [ANNOUNCE] NSS 3.12.3.1 Release

2009-07-30 Thread Ian G
On 31/7/09 04:29, Nelson B Bolyard wrote: ... So, a name with a NULL in it will appear as something like www.mybank.com\00*.badguy.org There must be something I am missing. Since when is a NULL a legal character in a domain? iang -- dev-tech-crypto mailing list

Re: [ANNOUNCE] NSS 3.12.3.1 Release

2009-07-30 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
On 2009-07-30 19:46 PDT, Ian G wrote: On 31/7/09 04:29, Nelson B Bolyard wrote: ... So, a name with a NULL in it will appear as something like www.mybank.com\00*.badguy.org There must be something I am missing. Since when is a NULL a legal character in a domain? Read the article that