On 22 March 2011 21:23, Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> wrote:
> 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.

erh? really.... hmm well there is the build option --with-ssl [0].... :/

[0] - http://mutt.sourceforge.net/imap/README.SSL



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