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UBUNTU-CVE-2011-1428 (CVE-2011-1428)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2011-03-16 22:55 – Updated: 2025-07-16 04:49 – Source website

Withdrawn 2025-07-18

Details

Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat (aka WeeChat) 0.3.4 and earlier does not properly verify that the server hostname matches the domain name of the subject of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof an SSL chat server via an arbitrary certificate, related to incorrect use of the GnuTLS API.

Severity

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2011-1428	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-1428	REPORT

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CVE-2011-1428 (GCVE-0-2011-1428)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-03-16 22:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 02:16

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

5 references

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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46612	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
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http://secunia.com/advisories/43543	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA

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UBUNTU-CVE-2011-1428 (CVE-2011-1428)

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