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weechat — security advisory
Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat (aka WeeChat) 0.3.4 and earlier does not properly verify that the server hostname matches the domain name of the subject of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof an SSL chat server via an arbitrary certificate, related to incorrect use of the GnuTLS API.
- Products
- weechat
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 0.3.5-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2011-1428
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 23:40 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat (aka WeeChat) 0.3.4 and earlier does not properly verify that the server hostname matches the domain name of the subject of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof an SSL chat server via an arbitrary certificate, related to incorrect use of the GnuTLS API.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1428
weechat
Fixed versions: 0.3.5-1
weechat
Fixed versions: 0.3.5-1
weechat
Fixed versions: 0.3.5-1
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-23T17:47:49.834034180Z",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 419174,
"published_at": "2011-03-16T22:55:04.7+00:00"
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