CVE-2013-1799 Information

Description

Gnome Online Accounts (GOA) 3.6.x before 3.6.3 and 3.7.x before 3.7.91 does not properly validate SSL certificates when creating accounts for providers who use the libsoup library which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain sensitive information such as credentials by sniffing the network. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-0240.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-02/msg00046.html http://secunia.com/advisories/51976 http://secunia.com/advisories/52791 http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1779-1 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693214 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=695106 https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-online-accounts/commit/?id=9cf4bc0ced2c53bcdd36922caa65afc8a167bbd8 https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2013-March/msg00007.html https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2013-March/msg00020.html