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CVE-2004-0758 Detail

Description

Mozilla 1.5 through 1.7 allows a CA certificate to be imported even when their DN is the same as that of the built-in CA root certificate, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service to SSL pages because the malicious certificate is treated as invalid.


Metrics

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.49/SCOSA-2005.49.txt CVE, MITRE
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249004 CVE, MITRE Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109900315219363&w=2 CVE, MITRE
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200408-22.xml CVE, MITRE
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/784278 CVE, MITRE US Government Resource 
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_36_mozilla.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-421.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15495 CVE, MITRE
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=127186 CVE, MITRE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16706 CVE, MITRE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10304 CVE, MITRE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A3134 CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2004-0758
NVD Published Date:
08/18/2004
NVD Last Modified:
04/02/2025
Source:
MITRE