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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2009-2408 Detail

Description

Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.12.3, Firefox before 3.0.13, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.23, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.18 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. NOTE: this was originally reported for Firefox before 3.5.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=7003 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00004.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List 
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125198917018936&w=2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List 
http://osvdb.org/56723 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/36088 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/36125 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/36139 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/36157 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/36434 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/36669 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/37098 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1021030.1-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1874 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:197 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:216 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:217 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-42.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2009_48_firefox.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.openldap.org/devel/cvsweb.cgi/libraries/libldap/tls_m.c.diff?r1=1.8&r2=1.11&f=h CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1207.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1432.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022632 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-810-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2085 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3184 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/kaminsky/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat Press/Media Coverage 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510251 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10751 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8458 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
https://usn.ubuntu.com/810-2/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
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-2009-2408
NVD Published Date:
07/30/2009
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.