Bug 749930

Summary: sylpheed: does not alert when an SSL certificate has expired
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Vincent Danen <vdanen>
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Description Vincent Danen 2011-10-28 21:51:05 UTC
A Debian bug report [1] indicated that Sylpheed does not warn you when an SSL certificate has expired.

I tried this on Fedora 15 with sylpheed-3.1.1-1.fc15 and had it obtain a certificate from my server, and told it to accept it permanently (saved to ~/.sylpheed-2.0/trust.crt).  I did this with today's date.  Then I set the date to a month from now and it still accepts the certificate:

% cat trust.crt| openssl x509 -fingerprint -sha1 -text|grep After
            Not After : Nov 20 14:45:33 2011 GMT
% date
Mon Nov 28 08:49:09 MST 2011

Apparently Sylpheed has suffered from other SSL-related weaknesses in the past, and it looks like this may have worked previously but no longer seems to.

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=355192#98

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2011-10-28 21:52:26 UTC
Created sylpheed tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 749931]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-10 10:58:10 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.