Re: CVE request: xchat/hexchat don't properly verify SSL certificates

[jmm () debian org]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:52:08AM -0700, Vincent Danen wrote:
> As reported [1]:
>
> XChat did not verify that the server hostname matched the domain name in the
> subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field in X.509 certificates.
> This could allow a man-in-the-middle attacker to spoof an SSL server if they
> had a certificate that was valid for any domain name.
>
> The same code is used in hexchat.
>
> This was initially reported to hexchat in 2013 [2] and fixed last November
> [3].  I'm not sure if it should receive a 2013 or a 2014 CVE.  Can one be
> assigned to this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1081839
> [2] https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat/issues/524
> [3] https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat/commit/c9b63f7f9be01692b03fa15275135a4910a7e02d

This seems to have fallen through the cracks, explicitly
adding cve-assign to CC.

Cheers,
        Moritz