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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 15:04:52 -0800
From: Reed Loden <reed@...dloden.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: xchat/hexchat don't properly verify
 SSL certificates

You're welcome to check the "Accept invalid SSL certificates" box in that
case, but the default should be that SSL/TLS certificates are correctly
validated. :)

~reed

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Sam Dodrill <shadow.h511@...il.com> wrote:

> A lot of the time IRC networks will not pay for a verified SSL cert due to
> the fact that the kind of SSL cert they would need (a wildcard one) is
> financially prohibitive. I don't think this is a security bug with hexchat
> more a symptom of the fact that SSL combines encryption and identity
> verification where sometimes people only want the former.
>
> On Thu Jan 29 2015 at 10:58:51 AM Marc Deslauriers <
> marc.deslauriers@...onical.com> wrote:
>
> > On 2015-01-29 01:52 PM, 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/c9b63f7f9be01692b03fa15275135a
> > 4910a7e02d
> > >
> >
> > Looks like XChat-GNOME is vulnerable also.
> >
> > Marc.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Marc Deslauriers
> > Ubuntu Security Engineer     | http://www.ubuntu.com/
> > Canonical Ltd.               | http://www.canonical.com/
> >
>

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