Bug 1142005 (CVE-2014-5444)

Summary:	CVE-2014-5444 geary: failure to handle certificate errors
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Murray McAllister <mmcallis>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	jrusnack, justin.brown, michel, thomas.moschny
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Description Murray McAllister 2014-09-16 01:49:04 UTC

It was reported that when Geary, an email client, received a certificate error, it continued connecting without warning the user. This could lead to man-in-the-middle attacks.

This has been fixed in upstream version 0.6.3 (this version is in Fedora 20 testing).

References:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=713247
https://git.gnome.org/browse/geary/commit/?h=geary-0.6&id=55f06a7bdcedb7efde6a516bde626ea28793ca7e

Comment 1 Murray McAllister 2014-09-16 01:50:41 UTC

Created geary tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-19 [bug 1142006]