Bug 457907 (CVE-2008-3532)

Summary: CVE-2008-3532 pidgin: NSS plugin doesn't verify SSL certificates
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Bug Depends On: 472585, 472586, 472587, 472588, 833957    
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Description Tomas Hoger 2008-08-05 11:01:40 UTC 
According to upstream bug report and Debian bug report:

  http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/6500
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492434

Pidgin builds using NSS library to provide cryptography do not properly verify SSL certificates provided by SSL-secured remote server (such as Jabber server).  Pidgin accept invalid or self-signed certificates, regardless of the list of configured trusted SSL CA certificates.
Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2008-08-27 19:59:21 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
  http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=28

Fixed upstream in: 2.5.0