[Secure-testing-team] Bug#745835: lynx-cur: certificate revocation is not checked

Vincent Lefevre vincent at vinc17.net
Fri Apr 25 17:41:31 UTC 2014


Package: lynx-cur
Version: 2.8.8pre5-1
Severity: grave
Tags: security
Justification: user security hole

Certificate revocation is not checked: lynx opens

  https://www.cloudflarechallenge.com/

without any warning or error, contrary to Firefox (and to Chromium
when the CRLSet is up-to-date).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lynx-cur depends on:
ii  libbsd0       0.6.0-2
ii  libbz2-1.0    1.0.6-5
ii  libc6         2.18-4
ii  libgcrypt11   1.5.3-4
ii  libgnutls26   2.12.23-14
ii  libidn11      1.28-2
ii  libncursesw5  5.9+20140118-1
ii  libtinfo5     5.9+20140118-1
ii  zlib1g        1:1.2.8.dfsg-1

Versions of packages lynx-cur recommends:
ii  mime-support  3.54

lynx-cur suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  lynx-cur/defaulturl: http://www.vinc17.org/
  lynx-cur/etc_lynx.cfg:



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