Secure testing team - Mar 2011 - Bug#619216: mutt: please build with openssl instead of gnutls

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.

This bug is reported  upstream at http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3506.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, ''stable'')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38 (SMP w/128 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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