Bug 688756

Summary: CVE-2011-1429 mutt: improper verification of X.509 certificates can lead to MITM attacks on SMTP SSL connections [fedora-all]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component: muttAssignee: Honza Horak <hhorak>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 14CC: hhorak, mlichvar, pertusus
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proposed patch - always check peer cert none

Description Vincent Danen 2011-03-17 22:14:28 UTC 
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Comment 1 Honza Horak 2011-03-23 14:10:32 UTC 
Created attachment 487048 [details]
proposed patch - always check peer cert

The proposed patch is being consulted with upstream; joining the discussion available here: http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3506
Comment 2 Honza Horak 2011-05-26 13:58:37 UTC 
Comment on attachment 487048 [details]
proposed patch - always check peer cert

patch proposed in the parent bug
Comment 3 Tomas Hoger 2011-06-27 11:27:51 UTC 
F14 (FEDORA-2011-7751) and F15 (FEDORA-2011-7739) updates are stable, F13 is EOL, closing.