A weakness has been identified in cURL, which could be exploited by attackers to bypass security restrictions. This issue is caused by errors within the GnuTLS certificate verification methods that do not properly check for expiration and activation dates, which could cause a vulnerable application to allow connections to sites using expired certificates.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Kees Cook.
ChangeLog
2007-07-18 : Initial release
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