CVE-2007-6746 Information

Description

telepathy-idle before 0.1.15 does not verify (1) that the issuer is a trusted CA (2) that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject’s Common Name (CN) or (3) the expiration date of the X.509 certificate which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/104397.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00052.html http://secunia.com/advisories/53361 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/24/5 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59474 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1821-1 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63810