Bug 1081357 (CVE-2014-2576) - CVE-2014-2576 claws-mail: RSSyl plug-in does not verify SSL certificates allowing man-in-the-middle attacks
Summary: CVE-2014-2576 claws-mail: RSSyl plug-in does not verify SSL certificates allo...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2014-2576
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: 1081358 1081359
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-03-27 04:43 UTC by Murray McAllister
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:15 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-07-12 13:03:58 UTC
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Description Murray McAllister 2014-03-27 04:43:55 UTC 
Marcus Meissner reported that the Claws Mail's RSSyl plug-in, an RSS feed aggregator, does not verify SSL certificates:

http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3106

This allows for man-in-the-middle attacks. This issue was assigned CVE-2014-2576:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/636
Comment 1 Murray McAllister 2014-03-27 04:45:17 UTC 
Created claws-mail tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1081358]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1081359]
Comment 3 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-07-12 13:03:58 UTC 
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