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Re: CVE Request - xchat/hexchat doesn't properly verify SSL certificates
From: cve-assign () mitre org
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 11:57:03 -0400 (EDT)
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I noticed that this issue never got a CVE assigned. http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/342 Could one be assigned now, or was it deemed not CVE worthy?
Use CVE-2013-7449. This is an issue that had extensive debate on oss-security, e.g., the http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/29/27 and http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/30/18 posts. Also, https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat/issues/524 only has an "enhancement" label and not a "bug" label. https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat/commit/c9b63f7f9be01692b03fa15275135a4910a7e02d doesn't directly suggest that the vendor interpreted this as a bug fix. The vendor's original goal may have been to support the use case in which people deploying IRC client or server code simply do not want to bother arranging for any type of verifiable server certificate (either by using a CA or self signing), these people are not concerned that a man-in-the-middle attacker may intentionally set up something to read or modify their traffic, and these people are only concerned with already-existing observation of over-the-wire cleartext. For example, client users may have connected via https only because they don't want their IRC messages to trigger IDS rules on their own local networks, and therefore automatically send chat snippets to their local network administrators. However, XChat and HexChat are general-purpose IRC clients that, based on their documentation, would appear suitable for any IRC client user to connect to any SSL IRC server. They didn't advertise that the SSL behavior was intended only for a prefer-not-to-accidentally-hit-an-IDS-rule use case. In creating a patch, the vendor never stated that the old behavior was once the desired behavior. So, even with the "enhancement" label, this issue must be interpreted as a vulnerability and must have a CVE ID. For affected products, also note the mention of XChat-GNOME in the http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/29/24 post. - -- CVE Assignment Team M/S M300, 202 Burlington Road, Bedford, MA 01730 USA [ A PGP key is available for encrypted communications at http://cve.mitre.org/cve/request_id.html ] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJXBS+qAAoJEL54rhJi8gl5tvAQALd6ceYTkPnzK/zFFs6Th+B4 w2vie2yj2/BcvrfmPut6kIEC8owgdzaK5gWwcVzuDlMC9y5puyrheSD8YXH/4ad2 TJdcA2UYcUl0UIM4ZzXyZmu1EJqgMeJ9FXHW/aIsg0drBin3X71zO7Hiq+BMGvw8 BqcrJQrp0aBKMzOQtoI+FZW2LDn+FcsNaIVxXuU8CrziYMbaIlycQn6dnUGE7qJ1 r7f+1bM5wH0NUY+IVdg4II8hjrPih8O2FmGSEg15OLteaBHPoZYNEK3hX8VCdonu 1inSYxFAF0co+28bGmCJ8CcAjT9NPWbvmxbp0h1rwkZKLic8YAZ/IWW8k/qO0Rkr TLXHFYpTSKIz/bCwgc6KU8VOWJnt7XzQAGOmQVrylQvbC+5ImyojaXUBZmTEAZzG rY1mwhVOy1A5fouulr4s1jtRp5+wMf3V7OpV9rBL0xERZ4c14z6zkHinzaUVqeVa e2ShMgcrr9dl2sRC9cX2sM1/zPQqia+ArGU//NJK92cKvg1v9XGnkjJrKCVva0Y1 9uFe4n18cRK2lD7+XI4pQSxBuoyojGiNgxjldIlCaR/fhfDvV9qhIIdf0K74IICp eMAWRrmPtlrjqp4J7JO5vIXyRDcRfT/k9lTni9G7FD5ayMVkwU+q4qEf7fTSZpuE Xy7K17ik/6TMYx7edjmf =0Fpa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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- CVE Request - xchat/hexchat doesn't properly verify SSL certificates Andrej Nemec (Apr 05)
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