May 12, 2006
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Products Affected
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Products Afftected |
Comments |
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WebNS |
8.10.105, 7.50.204, and 7.40.304 |
Problem Description
It has been determined that users of WEBNS version 8.10.104, 7.50 204, and 7.40.304 are vulnerable to the following DDTS - CSCek34363 - SSL Client authentication fails with IE browser. This version has been withdrawn and new, corrected images have been posted.
Background
The Safe Harbor Testing process has brought this issue to light. Through this exhaustive tesing it was determined that the fix for CSCek34363 was never correctly implemented in these code versions.
Problem Symptoms
The problem will display the following symptoms:
When an IE brower connects to the CSS which requires client authentication, the connection fails. Once the HTTP GET is received, the CSS does not forward that GET to the server. In turn, the client browser just sits there until the connection times out. From the user perspective, no page is ever loaded.
Workaround/Solution
Workarounds to the defect:
An IE browser that connects to a CSS with an ssl-server configured that has client authentication enabled will not see data returned. This issue is not seen when client authentication is disabled.
Another workaround is to turn off server id reuse, since this appears to contribute to the problem.
On the ssl-server command, under ssl-proxy-list use ssl-server x session-cache 0 .
Solution:
The fixed code has been reposted to CCO and the version numbers have been incremented by 1. The new versions are 8.10.106, 7.50.205 and 7.40.305, respectively.
DDTS
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DDTS |
Description |
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CSCek34363 (registered customers only) |
Client auth fails with IE browser. When an IE brower connects to the CSS which requires client authentication, the connection fails. Once the HTTP GET is received the CSS does not forward that GET to the server. In turn, the client browser just sits there until the connection times out. From the user perspective no page is ever loaded. |
Revision History
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Revision |
Date |
Comment |
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1.0 |
12-MAY-2006 |
Initial Public Release |
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