Gnome Online Accounts (GOA) 3.6.x before 3.6.3 and 3.7.x before 3.7.91,
does not properly validate SSL certificates when creating accounts for
providers who use the libsoup library, which allows man-in-the-middle
attackers to obtain sensitive information such as credentials by sniffing
the network. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for
CVE-2013-0240.

mdeslaur

mdeslaur

CVE-2013-1799 is a result of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-0240