CVE-2016-20011
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-05-25 20:09
Modified
2024-08-06 03:47
Severity ?
Summary
libgrss through 0.7.0 fails to perform TLS certificate verification when downloading feeds, allowing remote attackers to manipulate the contents of feeds without detection. This occurs because of the default behavior of SoupSessionSync.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772647Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgrss/-/issues/4Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgrss/-/merge_requests/7.patchMailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772647Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgrss/-/issues/4Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgrss/-/merge_requests/7.patchMailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
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