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Bug 699858 (CVE-2019-3890)

Summary: <gnome-extra/evolution-ews-3.32.2: all certificate errors ignored if configured to ignore an initial error (CVE-2019-3890)
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot <glsamaker>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: minor CC: gnome
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: B4 [stable? cve]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2019-11-11 17:57:51 UTC
CVE-2019-3890 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-3890):
  It was discovered evolution-ews before 3.31.3 does not check the validity of
  SSL certificates. An attacker could abuse this flaw to get confidential
  information by tricking the user into connecting to a fake server without
  the user noticing the difference.
Comment 1 Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev 2019-11-17 22:21:10 UTC
This is probably a duplicate of bug 678070.
Comment 2 Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev 2020-04-26 05:44:14 UTC
This is still a duplicate of bug 678070, which has been long handled, voted noglsa and closed.
Comment 3 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2020-05-22 00:36:23 UTC
(In reply to Mart Raudsepp from comment #2)
> This is still a duplicate of bug 678070, which has been long handled, voted
> noglsa and closed.

Thanks.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 678070 ***