[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#539449: CVE-2009-2408: vulnerable to null character certificate spoofing

[Giuseppe Iuculano]

retitle 539449 CVE-2009-2408: vulnerable to null character certificate spoofing
thanks

Hi,
this issue got a CVE id:

CVE-2009-2408[0]:
| Mozilla Firefox before 3.5 and NSS before 3.12.3 do not properly
| handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the subject's Common Name
| (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle
| attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate
| issued by a legitimate Certification Authority.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2408
    http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2009-2408

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