Bug#993537: gfbgraph: CVE-2021-39358

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: gfbgraph
Version: 0.2.4-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgfbgraph/-/issues/17
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>
Control: found -1 0.2.3-3

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for gfbgraph.

CVE-2021-39358[0]:
| In GNOME libgfbgraph through 0.2.4, gfbgraph-photo.c does not enable
| TLS certificate verification on the SoupSessionSync objects it
| creates, leaving users vulnerable to network MITM attacks. NOTE: this
| is similar to CVE-2016-20011.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-39358
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-39358
[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgfbgraph/-/issues/17

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore