libgadu up to 1.11.x X.509 Certificate certificate validation

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A vulnerability was found in libgadu up to 1.11.x. It has been rated as critical. Affected is an unknown function of the component X.509 Certificate Handler. The manipulation leads to certificate validation. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2013-4488. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in libgadu up to 1.11.x. This issue affects an unknown function of the component X.509 Certificate Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a certificate validation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-295. The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

libgadu before 1.12.0 does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers.

The weakness was released 04/22/2023. It is possible to read the advisory at mail-archive.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2013-4488 since 06/12/2013. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1587.003 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 77842 (Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libgadu (MDVSA-2014:185)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Mandriva Local Security Checks.

Upgrading to version 1.12.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (77842) and SecurityFocus (BID 63473†). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• libgadu

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• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11

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