PT-2015-7883 · Hexchat · Hexchat

Published 2015-02-05 · Updated 2015-02-05

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions HexChat (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to spoof an SSL server if they have a certificate valid for any domain name, due to HexChat not verifying that the server hostname matches the domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field in X.509 certificates.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

MGASA-2015-0050

Affected Products

Hexchat

References · 5

• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0050.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0050 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat/issues/524 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/29/23 · Note
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15158 · Note