CVE-2013-7449

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Apr 21, 2016
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Apr 6, 2016

Description

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat/commit/c9b63f7f9be01692b03fa15275135a4910a7e02d
USN-2945-1vendor-advisory
https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat/issues/524
http://hexchat.readthedocs.org/en/latest/changelog.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1081839

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