Bug 1081357 (CVE-2014-2576)

Summary:	CVE-2014-2576 claws-mail: RSSyl plug-in does not verify SSL certificates allowing man-in-the-middle attacks
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Murray McAllister <mmcallis>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	andreas.bierfert
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Description Murray McAllister 2014-03-27 04:43:55 UTC

Marcus Meissner reported that the Claws Mail's RSSyl plug-in, an RSS feed aggregator, does not verify SSL certificates:

http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3106

This allows for man-in-the-middle attacks. This issue was assigned CVE-2014-2576:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/636

Comment 1 Murray McAllister 2014-03-27 04:45:17 UTC

Created claws-mail tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1081358]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1081359]

Comment 3 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-07-12 13:03:58 UTC

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