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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2009-4565 Detail

Description

sendmail before 8.14.4 does not properly handle a '\0' character in a Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, which (1) allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL-based SMTP servers via a crafted server certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, and (2) allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted client certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, a related issue to CVE-2009-2408.


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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (01/21/2010)

Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-4565 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw.

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html CVE, MITRE
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=126953289726317&w=2 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/37998 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/38314 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/38915 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/39088 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/40109 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/43366 CVE, MITRE
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-30.xml CVE, MITRE
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1021797.1-1 CVE, MITRE
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1985 CVE, MITRE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0262.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37543 CVE, MITRE
http://www.sendmail.org/releases/8.14.4 CVE, MITRE Patch 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3661 CVE, MITRE Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0719 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1386 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0415 CVE, MITRE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10255 CVE, MITRE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11822 CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-310 Cryptographic Issues cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2009-4565
NVD Published Date:
01/04/2010
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE