Bug#995926: Error validating Let's Encrypt cert chains

Andreas Metzler ametzler at bebt.de
Mon Oct 11 17:41:58 BST 2021


Control: reassign -1 lftp 4.8.4-2

On 2021-10-11 Andreas Metzler <ametzler at bebt.de> wrote:
> On 2021-10-08 Andre Heider <a.heider at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Source: gnutls28
>> Version: 3.7.2-2

>> Apps using gnutls fail to connect to servers using a Let's Encrypt
>> certificate which are cross-signed by the now expired DST Root CA X3, see
>> [0].

>> Examples:

>> $ lftp https://shop.bbc.com
>> cd: Fatal error: Certificate verification: Not trusted
>> (93:3C:6D:DE:E9:5C:9C:41:A4:0F:9F:50:49:3D:82:BE:03:AD:87:BF)
> [...]
>> [0] https://letsencrypt.org/docs/dst-root-ca-x3-expiration-september-2021/

> given that 
> gnutls-cli --port https shop.bbc.com
> works I suspect that it is not necessarily a GnuTLS problem.

This looks like
https://github.com/lavv17/lftp/issues/641
which has a fix in upstream GIT.

cu Andreas
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