Cryptographic Issues The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package hexchat (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-HEXCHAT-11745507
- published10 Aug 2025
- disclosed21 Apr 2016
Introduced: 21 Apr 2016
CVE-2013-7449 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:14.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream hexchat package and not the hexchat package as distributed by Debian.
The ssl_do_connect function in common/server.c in HexChat before 2.10.2, XChat, and XChat-GNOME does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-7449
- https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat/commit/c9b63f7f9be01692b03fa15275135a4910a7e02d
- https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat/issues/524
- http://hexchat.readthedocs.org/en/latest/changelog.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1081839
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2013-7449
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2945-1