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Improper Certificate Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package balsa  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-BALSA-611166
  • published28 May 2020
  • disclosed28 May 2020
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Introduced: 28 May 2020

CVE-2020-13645  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-295  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream balsa package and not the balsa package as distributed by Ubuntu.

In GNOME glib-networking through 2.64.2, the implementation of GTlsClientConnection skips hostname verification of the server's TLS certificate if the application fails to specify the expected server identity. This is in contrast to its intended documented behavior, to fail the certificate verification. Applications that fail to provide the server identity, including Balsa before 2.5.11 and 2.6.x before 2.6.1, accept a TLS certificate if the certificate is valid for any host.

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