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Title : Pidgin SSL Certificate Verification Security Bypass Weakness
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2318
CVE ID : CVE-2008-3532
CWE ID : CWE-295
Rated as : Low Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-08-07

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A weakness has been identified in Pidgin, which could be exploited by attackers to bypass security restrictions. This issue is caused due to the NSS plugin not properly verifying SSL certificates, which could be exploited to conduct spoofing attacks.

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Josh Triplett.

ChangeLog

2008-08-07 : Initial release

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