| Name | CVE-2021-39361 |
| Description | In GNOME evolution-rss through 0.3.96, network-soup.c does not enable TLS certificate verification on the SoupSessionSync objects it creates, leaving users vulnerable to network MITM attacks. NOTE: this is similar to CVE-2016-20011. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 996590 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| evolution-rss | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | 996590 |
Notes
[bullseye] - evolution-rss <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - evolution-rss <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[stretch] - evolution-rss <postponed> (Minor issue, revisit when/if fixed upstream)
https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2021/05/25/reminder-soupsessionsync-and-soupsessionasync-default-to-no-tls-certificate-verification/
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-rss/-/issues/11