Bug 457907 (CVE-2008-3532) - CVE-2008-3532 pidgin: NSS plugin doesn't verify SSL certificates
Summary: CVE-2008-3532 pidgin: NSS plugin doesn't verify SSL certificates
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2008-3532
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 472585 472586 472587 472588 833957
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-08-05 11:01 UTC by Tomas Hoger
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:26 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-11-19 15:31:09 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2008:1023 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: pidgin security and bug fix update 2008-12-15 13:14:14 UTC

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
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