Bug 1965453 (CVE-2016-20011) - CVE-2016-20011 libgrss: Does not perform TLS certificate validation
Summary: CVE-2016-20011 libgrss: Does not perform TLS certificate validation
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2016-20011
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: 1965454
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-05-27 17:54 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2021-05-27 23:32 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-05-27 23:32:45 UTC
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2021-05-27 17:54:39 UTC 
libgrss through 0.7.0 fails to perform TLS certificate verification when downloading feeds, allowing remote attackers to manipulate the contents of feeds without detection. This occurs because of the default behavior of SoupSessionSync.

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https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772647
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgrss/-/issues/4
Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2021-05-27 17:55:01 UTC 
Created libgrss tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1965454]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-05-27 23:32:45 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.
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