Bug 902495 (CVE-2014-3694) - VUL-0: CVE-2014-3694: pidgin: SSL/TLS plug-ins failed to check Basic Constraints
Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2014-3694: pidgin: SSL/TLS plug-ins failed to check Basic Constraints
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2014-3694
Product: SUSE Security Incidents
Classification: Novell Products
Component: Incidents (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: Dominique Leuenberger
QA Contact: Security Team bot
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/110129/
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Reported: 2014-10-24 08:25 UTC by Victor Pereira
Modified: 2015-01-09 13:10 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Found By: Security Response Team
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Description Victor Pereira 2014-10-24 08:25:37 UTC 
CVE-2014-3694

It was reported that the SSL/TLS plug-ins failed to check that the Basic Constraints extension allowed intermediate certificates to act as Certificate Authorities (CAs). An attacker could use this flaw to create a fake certificate that Pidgin would trust, which could be used for man-in-the-middle attacks.

This is the same situation as described in http://www.thoughtcrime.org/ie-ssl-chain.txt


References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1154908
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-3694
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3055
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3694
Comment 1 Dominique Leuenberger 2014-10-24 09:28:11 UTC 
Preparing update to 2.10.10 for openSUSE 13.1 and 12.3
Comment 2 Swamp Workflow Management 2014-11-10 12:05:52 UTC 
openSUSE-SU-2014:1376-1: An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

Category: security (moderate)
Bug References: 853038,874606,902408,902409,902410,902495
CVE References: CVE-2014-3694,CVE-2014-3695,CVE-2014-3696,CVE-2014-3697,CVE-2014-3698
Sources used:
openSUSE 13.1 (src):    pidgin-2.10.10-4.22.1, pidgin-branding-openSUSE-13.1-2.17.1, pidgin-otr-4.0.0-4.7.1
openSUSE 12.3 (src):    pidgin-2.10.10-4.16.1, pidgin-branding-openSUSE-12.2-4.21.1, pidgin-otr-4.0.0-2.11.1
Comment 3 Swamp Workflow Management 2014-11-12 10:06:26 UTC 
openSUSE-SU-2014:1397-1: An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

Category: security (moderate)
Bug References: 853038,874606,902408,902409,902410,902495
CVE References: CVE-2014-3694,CVE-2014-3695,CVE-2014-3696,CVE-2014-3697,CVE-2014-3698
Sources used:
openSUSE 13.2 (src):    pidgin-2.10.10-5.4.1, pidgin-branding-openSUSE-13.2-2.3.1
Comment 4 Dominique Leuenberger 2015-01-09 13:10:30 UTC 
Update has been released