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posted by on Wednesday May 31 2017, @06:49AM   Printer-friendly
from the hiring-an-unpaid-intern-is-hard-work dept.

Bing.com OCSP certificate expires: how pathetic is that?

For over 8 hours now, when trying to access Bing.com, you'll get a warning about their OCSP certificate (message from Firefox):

An error occurred during a connection to www.bing.com. Invalid OCSP signing certificate in OCSP response. Error code: SEC_ERROR_OCSP_INVALID_SIGNING_CERT

How pathetic is that? I mean, companies such as Microsoft are so big; don't tell me they don't have the human & technical knowledge to manage their certificates. Even an intern could write some kind of tool to ensure a warning is sent beforehand!

It's embarrassing that something that simple (cert & domain expiration) is still a frequent problem, and for BIG tech companies too!

Palemoon: Hotmail, Live, Outlook and Bing connection errors, and our security.

Today, our users started seeing connectivity errors when trying to connect to most Microsoft on-line services like Hotmail, Onedrive, Outlook, Microsoft Live, and even the https version of the Bing search engine. The culprit? misconfigured servers on Microsoft's side, specifically their so-called "stapled OCSP responses".

Now, this gets technical rather quickly, so a quick summary of what this is all about:
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What happened is that servers for the domains mentioned did not use the correct certificate chain to sign their stapled OCSP responses. As a result, connections to the related https servers started to fail. But, notably, only from browsers using NSS (like Pale Moon and Firefox). Chrome didn't complain (more on that later). Edge was apparently also fine, but I haven't looked into why that is, myself.

From a browser's point of view, this should be considered (very) bad, because it looks like some other party (not being the authority that issued the certificate) is trying to tell the browser that a certificate isn't revoked. This party could be an attacker that is trying to use a revoked (mis-issued) certificate, for example.

Now, considering all browsers can be expected to support stapled responses, this highlighted a rather disturbing security issue with mainstream browsers: Apparently, only Pale Moon and Firefox (and rebuilds) are doing the correct thing.

https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=15823


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 31 2017, @07:40AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 31 2017, @07:40AM (#518169)

    M$ i$ $hit ha ha ha

    M$ i$ $hit ha ha ha

    M$ i$ $hit ha ha ha

  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday May 31 2017, @08:03AM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday May 31 2017, @08:03AM (#518175) Journal

    M$ i$ $hit ha ha ha

    M$ i$ $hit ha ha ha

    M$ i$ $hit ha ha ha

    Now, that's what I call an endless tragedy. But one learns to live with it.
    (grow up, will ye?)

    --
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 31 2017, @08:32AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 31 2017, @08:32AM (#518182)

      I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Trolls "R" Us kid
      There are a million sites on the web where I can post shit
      I don't wanna grow up, cause maybe if I did
      I couldn't be a Trolls "R" Us kid

  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday May 31 2017, @09:36AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Wednesday May 31 2017, @09:36AM (#518192) Journal

    Once I got an hot-mail into my Out-look inbox which didn't look out for bad code and so Bing! it all got p0wn3d to prove there really was no security not in the browser and certainly nowhere else, just profits for someone else.

    Microsoft can't get their certificates right hohohohohohohohohohohohoho :p

    Is this one of those errors "Press F1 if you forgot the password to login anyway" ? ;)
    Systems are supposed to be user friendly right?

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 31 2017, @10:39AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 31 2017, @10:39AM (#518203)

    Please don't intermix Microsoft BASIC string variables and PHP variables. It hurts the eyes.