Bug 1997144 (CVE-2021-39359)

Summary:	CVE-2021-39359 libgda: missing TLS certificate verification
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	decathorpe, karlthered, lkundrak
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-08-24 14:03:56 UTC

In GNOME libgda through 6.0.0, gda-web-provider.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.

References:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgda/-/issues/249
https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2021/05/25/reminder-soupsessionsync-and-soupsessionasync-default-to-no-tls-certificate-verification/

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-08-24 14:04:13 UTC

Created libgda tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1997147]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1997146]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-08-24 15:35:24 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.