[pca] Incorrect permissions in prepatch for 121118-19

Martin Paul martin at par.univie.ac.at
Fri Nov 25 13:18:15 CET 2011


laurent at elanor.org wrote:
> However, I believe we are hitting a fundamental flaw of the Oracle patch 
> download system here:
> 
> If you go back to my previous email with the debug run, the request for 
> the patch is secure: https://updates.oracle.com/all_unsigned/121118-19.zip
> 
> If the patch were *really* downloaded as httpS, then the proxy would not 
> be able to tamper with it.
> BUT that https link then redirects to an http one, and the actual 
> download is clear-text.

Hm, you're right. Looking at the log from my proxy server, this seems to have 
changed in July with the last changes to Oracle's backend structure:

Before, patches came from https://a248.e.akamai.net/, but since that change it 
is now either http://aru-llnw-dl.oracle.com/ or http://aru-akam.oracle.com/. So 
the actual patch download silently switched from HTTP to HTTPS.

Martin.



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