CVE-2014-3694

The 1 bundled GnuTLS SSL/TLS plugin and the 2 bundled OpenSSL SSL/TLS plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.10 do not properly consider the Basic Constraints extension during verification of X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and...

MGASA-2014-0425 Updated pidgin packages fix security vulnerabilities

In Pidgin before 2.10.10, both of libpurple's bundled SSL/TLS plugins one for GnuTLS and one for NSS failed to check that the Basic Constraints extension allowed intermediate certificates to act as CAs. This allowed anyone with any valid certificate to create a fake certificate for any arbitrary...