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CVE request: xchat/hexchat don't properly verify SSL certificates
From: "Vincent Danen" <vdanen () redhat com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 11:52:08 -0700
As reported [1]:XChat did not verify that the server hostname matched the domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field in X.509 certificates. This could allow a man-in-the-middle attacker to spoof an SSL server if they had a certificate that was valid for any domain name.
The same code is used in hexchat.This was initially reported to hexchat in 2013 [2] and fixed last November [3]. I'm not sure if it should receive a 2013 or a 2014 CVE. Can one be assigned to this?
Thanks. [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1081839 [2] https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat/issues/524[3] https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat/commit/c9b63f7f9be01692b03fa15275135a4910a7e02d
-- Vincent Danen / Red Hat Product Security
Current thread:
- CVE request: xchat/hexchat don't properly verify SSL certificates Vincent Danen (Jan 29)
- Re: CVE request: xchat/hexchat don't properly verify SSL certificates Marc Deslauriers (Jan 29)
- Re: CVE request: xchat/hexchat don't properly verify SSL certificates Sam Dodrill (Jan 29)
- Re: CVE request: xchat/hexchat don't properly verify SSL certificates Reed Loden (Jan 29)
- Re: CVE request: xchat/hexchat don't properly verify SSL certificates Daniel Kahn Gillmor (Jan 29)
- Re: CVE request: xchat/hexchat don't properly verify SSL certificates Michael Samuel (Jan 30)
- Re: CVE request: xchat/hexchat don't properly verify SSL certificates Kurt Seifried (Jan 30)
- Re: CVE request: xchat/hexchat don't properly verify SSL certificates TingPing (Jan 30)
- Re: CVE request: xchat/hexchat don't properly verify SSL certificates Sam Dodrill (Jan 29)
- Re: CVE request: xchat/hexchat don't properly verify SSL certificates Marc Deslauriers (Jan 29)
- Re: CVE request: xchat/hexchat don't properly verify SSL certificates Sven Schwedas (Jan 30)