Vulnerabilities > CVE-2014-5444 - Cryptographic Issues vulnerability in Yorba Geary
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN Summary
Geary before 0.6.3 does not present the user with a warning when a TLS certificate error is detected, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks via a crafted certificate.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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Application | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Signature Spoofing by Key Recreation An attacker obtains an authoritative or reputable signer's private signature key by exploiting a cryptographic weakness in the signature algorithm or pseudorandom number generation and then uses this key to forge signatures from the original signer to mislead a victim into performing actions that benefit the attacker.
Nessus
NASL family | SuSE Local Security Checks |
NASL id | OPENSUSE-2014-552.NASL |
description | geary was updated to version 0.6.3 (bnc#896679 VUL-0: CVE-2014-5444) : Security issue fixed : + Warn user of not matching TLS certificate issues when connecting (bgo#713247, CVE-2014-5444). + Fix wrong timestamp in composed email Date: header (bgo#714376). + Patch major memory leak due to GMime bindings. + Stabilize search sorting to prevent dropped search results. + Prevent Inbox from being cleared on startup w/ Dovecot, Zimbra, and more. |
last seen | 2020-06-05 |
modified | 2014-09-25 |
plugin id | 77844 |
published | 2014-09-25 |
reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. |
source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/77844 |
title | openSUSE Security Update : geary (openSUSE-SU-2014:1225-1) |
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References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00035.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00035.html
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=713247
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=713247
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/geary/commit/?h=geary-0.6&id=55f06a7bdcedb7efde6a516bde626ea28793ca7e
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/geary/commit/?h=geary-0.6&id=55f06a7bdcedb7efde6a516bde626ea28793ca7e