Vulnerability CVE-2007-6746
Published: 2013-05-21

Description:
telepathy-idle before 0.1.15 does not verify (1) that the issuer is a trusted CA, (2) that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN), or (3) the expiration date of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5.8/10
4.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
None
Affected software
Canonical -> Telepathy-idle 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63810
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1821-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59474
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/24/5
http://secunia.com/advisories/53361
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00052.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/104397.html
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