Vigil@nce - GNOME glib-networking: Man-in-the-Middle via GTlsClientConnection
August 2020 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/computer-vulnerability
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Fedora, Ubuntu.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: data reading, data creation/edition.
Provenance: internet server.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 18/06/2020.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can act as a Man-in-the-Middle via
GTlsClientConnection on GNOME glib-networking, in order to read or
write data in the session.
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