USN-2672-1 nss vulnerabilities

Karthikeyan Bhargavan discovered that NSS incorrectly handled state transitions for the TLS state machine. If a remote attacker were able to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be exploited to skip the ServerKeyExchange message and remove the forward-secrecy property...

cURL library -- cert name check ignore with GnuTLS

cURL project reports: libcurl is vulnerable to a case of missing out the checking of the certificate CN or SAN name field when the digital signature verification is turned off. libcurl offers two separate and independent options for verifying a server's TLS certificate. CURLOPTSSLVERIFYPEER and...

DSA-2299-1 ca-certificates - untrusted root CA

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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : kdelibs4 (MDVSA-2011:071)

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in kdelibs4 : kio/kio/tcpslavebase.cpp in KDE KSSL in kdelibs before 4.6.1 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 arbitrary SSL...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : rootcerts (MDVSA-2010:029)

The rootcerts package was added in Mandriva in 2005 and was meant to be updated when nessesary. The provided rootcerts packages has been upgraded using the latest certdata.txt file from the mozilla cvs repository, as of 2009/12/03. In Mandriva a number of additional CA root certificates has been...