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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

National Vulnerability Database
  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2009-0265 Detail

Description

Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) BIND 9.6.0 and earlier does not properly check the return value from the OpenSSL EVP_VerifyFinal function, which allows remote attackers to bypass validation of the certificate chain via a malformed SSL/TLS signature, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2008-5077 and CVE-2009-0025.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (01/26/2009)

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of BIND as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.protocols.dns.bind/browse_thread/thread/49ef622c8329fd33 CVE, MITRE Mailing List 
http://secunia.com/advisories/33559 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.540362 CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Patch 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:037 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0043 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
https://www.isc.org/node/373 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-252 Unchecked Return Value cwe source acceptance level NIST  
CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2009-0265
NVD Published Date:
01/26/2009
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE