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USN-1779-1: GNOME Online Accounts vulnerability

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USN-1779-1: GNOME Online Accounts vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
04/01/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

Gnome Online Accounts (GOA) 3.6.x before 3.6.3 and 3.7.x before 3.7.91, does not properly validate SSL certificates when creating accounts for providers who use the libsoup library, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain sensitive information such as credentials by sniffing the network. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-0240.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-gnome-online-accounts
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libgoa-1-0-0

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