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The default_tls_x509_verify (and related) parameters in qemu.conf control whether the QEMU TLS servers request & verify certificates from clients. This works as a simple access control system for servers by requiring the CA to issue certs to permitted clients. This use of client certificates is disabled by default, since it requires extra work to issue client certificates. Unfortunately the code was using this configuration parameter when setting up both TLS clients and servers in QEMU. The result was that TLS clients for character devices and disk devices had verification turned off, meaning they would ignore errors while validating the server certificate. This allows for trivial MITM attacks between client and server, as any certificate returned by the attacker will be accepted by the client. This is assigned CVE-2017-1000256 / LSN-2017-0002 Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> (cherry picked from commit 441d3eb6d1be940a67ce45a286602a967601b157)
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>