Bug 1142005 (CVE-2014-5444) - CVE-2014-5444 geary: failure to handle certificate errors
Summary: CVE-2014-5444 geary: failure to handle certificate errors
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: CVE-2014-5444
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1142006
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-09-16 01:49 UTC by Murray McAllister
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:21 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-04-24 18:50:25 UTC
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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]
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