On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:57:17 +1100, david b wrote:

> Package: mutt
> Version: 1.5.20-9+squeeze1
> Severity: grave
> Tags: security
> Justification: user security hole
> 
> The gnutls implementation of ssl found in mutt, in mutt_ssl_gnutls.c, appears 
> to not validate
> the common name of a remote server correctly. The openssl implementation  
> found in mutt_ssl.c
> does perform this check correctly.
> Can the mutt package be re-build against openssl and not gnutls.
> 
No, it can't.  As far as I can tell mutt's license is GPL2+, which is
incompatible with openssl.

Cheers,
Julien



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