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CVE-2011-1429

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2012-04-06	mutt-devel -- failure to check SMTP TLS server certificate

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CVE-2011-1429 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2011-1429
Phase	Assigned(20110316)

Description

Mutt does not verify that the smtps server hostname matches the domain name of the subject of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof an SSL SMTP server via an arbitrary certificate, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-3766.

References

Source	Reference
FULLDISC	20110308 Mutt: failure to check server certificate in SMTP TLS connection
FEDORA	FEDORA-2011-7739
FEDORA	FEDORA-2011-7751
FEDORA	FEDORA-2011-7756
REDHAT	RHSA-2011:0959
BID	46803
SECUNIA	44937
SREASON	8143
XF	mutt-smtptls-weak-security(66015)