Arora, possibly 0.11 and other versions, does not use a certain font when rendering certificate fields in a security dialog, which allows remote attackers to spoof the common name (CN) of a certificate via rich text.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201412-09 (Multiple packages, Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 2011)

    Vulnerabilities have been discovered in the packages listed below.
      Please review the CVE identifiers in the Reference section for details.
      FMOD Studio       PEAR Mail       LVM2       GnuCash       xine-lib       Last.fm Scrobbler       WebKitGTK+       shadow tool suite       PEAR       unixODBC       Resource Agents       mrouted       rsync       XML Security Library       xrdb       Vino       OProfile       syslog-ng       sFlow Toolkit       GNOME Display Manager       libsoup       CA Certificates       Gitolite       QtCreator       Racer   Impact :

    A context-dependent attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges,       execute arbitrary code, cause Denial of Service, obtain sensitive       information, or otherwise bypass security restrictions.
  Workaround :

    There are no known workarounds at this time.

Fixes CVE-2011-3367, an input validation flaw.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
79962	GLSA-201412-09 : Multiple packages, Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 2011	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
57308	Fedora 15 : arora-0.11.0-3.fc15 (2011-14756)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
57141	Fedora 16 : arora-0.11.0-3.fc16 (2011-14719)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2011-3367

high

Tenable Plugins

critical

medium

medium