Bug 1187487 – VUL-0: CVE-2021-34825: quassel: when --require-ssl is enabled and there is no certificate to load it will accept plaintext connections

Bug 1187487 - (CVE-2021-34825) VUL-0: CVE-2021-34825: quassel: when --require-ssl is enabled and there is no certificate to load it will accept plaintext connections

(CVE-2021-34825)
Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2021-34825: quassel: when --require-ssl is enabled and there is no...

Status:	NEW

Classification:	openSUSE
Product:	openSUSE Distribution
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Priority:	P3 - Medium Severity: Normal (vote)
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URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/302474/
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Reported:	2021-06-18 10:18 UTC by Gianluca Gabrielli
Modified:	2021-06-18 11:15 UTC (History)
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Description Gianluca Gabrielli 2021-06-18 10:18:13 UTC

Quassel through 0.13.1, when --require-ssl is enabled, launches without SSL or TLS support if a usable X.509 certificate is not found on the local system.

Reference:
https://github.com/quassel/quassel/pull/581

References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1973440
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2021-34825
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-34825
https://github.com/quassel/quassel/pull/581