MGASA-2020-0390 Updated geary package fixes a security vulnerability

GNOME Geary before 3.36.3 mishandles pinned TLS certificate verification for IMAP and SMTP services using invalid TLS certificates e.g., self-signed certificates when the client system is not configured to use a system-provided PKCS11 store. This allows a meddler in the middle to present a...

Fedora 31 : geary (2020-95f2c5cc25)

Add patch for CVE-2020-24661: Handling of pinned, invalid TLS certificates. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without...

Fedora: Security Advisory for geary (FEDORA-2020-d445fb484a)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2020 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

CVE-2020-24661

CVE-2020-24661 affects GNOME Geary prior to 3.36.3. The issue stems from mishandling of pinned TLS certificate verification for IMAP/SMTP when the client is not configured to use a system PKCS#11 store, allowing a MITM to present an invalid certificate and intercept mail. Public sources in the co...