FreeBSD VuXML: Documenting security issues in FreeBSD and the FreeBSD Ports Collection

CVE-2013-1431

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2013-06-05	telepathy-gabble -- TLS verification bypass

The following information is adapted from the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project. CVE and the CVE logo are trademarks of The MITRE Corporation. CVE content is Copyright 2005, The MITRE Corporation.

CVE-2013-1431 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2013-1431
Phase	Assigned(20130126)

Description

The Wocky module in Telepathy Gabble before 0.16.6 and 0.17.x before 0.17.4, when connecting to a "legacy Jabber server," does not properly enforce the WockyConnector:tls-required flag, which allows remote attackers to bypass TLS verification and perform a man-in-the-middle attacks.

References

Source	Reference
MLIST	[oss-security] 20130530 CVE-2013-1431: telepathy-gabble: TLS bypass via use of legacy Jabber
CONFIRM	https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65036
DEBIAN	DSA-2702
UBUNTU	USN-1873-1
SECUNIA	53779