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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-24661: Improper Certificate Validation

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-24661: Improper Certificate Validation

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
08/26/2020
Created
09/24/2020
Added
09/23/2020
Modified
10/02/2024

Description

GNOME Geary before 3.36.3 mishandles pinned TLS certificate verification for IMAP and SMTP services using invalid TLS certificates (e.g., self-signed certificates) when the client system is not configured to use a system-provided PKCS#11 store. This allows a meddler in the middle to present a different invalid certificate to intercept incoming and outgoing mail.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-geary

References

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