evolution-rss: CVE-2021-39361: Missing TLS certificate verification

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-39361   CVE-2016-20011  

Debian Bug report logs - #996590
evolution-rss: CVE-2021-39361: Missing TLS certificate verification

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Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2021 20:09:01 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: security, upstream

Found in versions evolution-rss/0.3.96-4, evolution-rss/0.3.95-9, evolution-rss/0.3.96-2

Forwarded to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-rss/-/issues/11

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Bug#996590; Package src:evolution-rss. (Fri, 15 Oct 2021 20:09:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: evolution-rss: CVE-2021-39361: Missing TLS certificate verification
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2021 22:04:33 +0200
Source: evolution-rss
Version: 0.3.96-4
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-rss/-/issues/11
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil@debian.org, Debian Security Team <team@security.debian.org>
Control: found -1 0.3.96-2
Control: found -1 0.3.95-9

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for evolution-rss.

CVE-2021-39361[0]:
| In GNOME evolution-rss through 0.3.96, network-soup.c does not enable
| TLS certificate verification on the SoupSessionSync objects it
| creates, leaving users vulnerable to network MITM attacks. NOTE: this
| is similar to CVE-2016-20011.

TTBOMK, no fix exists yet at time of writing, bug filled to track the
upstream issue downstream so far.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-39361
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-39361
[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-rss/-/issues/11

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore



Marked as found in versions evolution-rss/0.3.96-2. Request was from Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> to submit@bugs.debian.org. (Fri, 15 Oct 2021 20:09:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Marked as found in versions evolution-rss/0.3.95-9. Request was from Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> to submit@bugs.debian.org. (Fri, 15 Oct 2021 20:09:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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