CVE-2016-20011

Description

libgrss through 0.7.0 fails to perform TLS certificate verification when downloading feeds, allowing remote attackers to manipulate the contents of feeds without detection. This occurs because of the default behavior of SoupSessionSync.

References

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgrss/-/merge_requests/7.patch

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgrss/-/issues/4

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772647

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3