[Bug 1374730] [NEW] X509 certificate verification problem

[Jerry Zhang]

Public bug reported:

Hostname verification is an important step when verifying X509
certificates, however, people tend to miss the step when using SSL/TLS,
which might cause severe man in the middle attack and break the entire
TLS mechanism.

We believe that keepalived didn't check whether the hostname matches the
name in the ssl certificate and the expired date of the certificate.

We found the vulnerability by static analysis, typically, a process of verfication involves calling a chain of API, and we can deduce whether the communication process is vulnerable by detecting whether the process satisfies a certain relation.
The result format is like this:
notice: Line Number at Method Name, Source File

We provide this result to help developers to locate the problem faster.

This is the result for keepalived:
PDG]ssl_connect'1
	[Found]SSL_connect()
	[HASH] 1598777261 [LineNo]@ 211[Kind]call-site[Char] SSL_connect()[Src] /home/roca/workspace/codebase/code/ubuntu_pkg/keepalived/keepalived-1.2.2/keepalived/check/check_ssl.c
	[Warning] SSL_new() not found!
[PDG]ssl_connect
	[Found]SSL_connect()
	[HASH] 2061808858 [LineNo]@ 107[Kind]call-site[Char] SSL_connect()[Src] /home/roca/workspace/codebase/code/ubuntu_pkg/keepalived/keepalived-1.2.2/genhash/ssl.c
	[Warning] SSL_new() not found!


We don't have a POC because we didn't succeed in configuring this software or don't know the way to verify the vulnerability. But through the analysis of the source code, we believe it breaks the ssl certificate verfication protocol.

for more information about the importance of checking hostname:
see http://people.stfx.ca/x2011/x2011ucj/SSL/p38-georgiev.pdf

Thanks.

** Affects: keepalived (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Information type changed from Private Security to Public

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