Debian Security Advisory DSA 2482-1 (libgdata)

The remote host is missing an update to libgdata announced via advisory DSA 2482-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb24821.nasl 6612 2017-07-07 12:08:03Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 2482-1 libgdata Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2012 E-Soft Inc...

Debian DSA-2482-1 : libgdata - insufficient certificate validation

Vreixo Formoso discovered that libgdata, a library used to access various Google services, wasn't validating certificates against trusted system root CAs when using an HTTPS connection. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin wer...