CVE-2011-1428 Information

Description

Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat (aka WeeChat) 0.3.4 and earlier does not properly verify that the server hostname matches the domain name of the subject of an X.509 certificate which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof an SSL chat server via an arbitrary certificate related to incorrect use of the GnuTLS API.

Reference

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2011-02/0671.html http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=weechat.git;a=commit;h=c265cad1c95b84abfd4e8d861f25926ef13b5d91 http://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/index.php?7459 http://secunia.com/advisories/43543 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46612

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