CVE-2009-3767

Published Oct 23, 2009

Last updated 4 years ago

Overview

Description
libraries/libldap/tls_o.c in OpenLDAP 2.2 and 2.4, and possibly other versions, when OpenSSL is used, does 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, a related issue to CVE-2009-2408.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Analyzed

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Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
4.3
Impact score
2.9
Exploitability score
8.6
Vector string
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-295

Vendor comments

  • Red HatRed Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-3767 This issue was addressed in the openldap packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 4 via: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0198.html and https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0543.html respectively. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having moderate security impact, a future openldap update may address this flaw in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.
  • OpenLDAPOpenLDAP reported this issue and published a patch for it on 2009-07-30. The patch was included in OpenLDAP 2.4.18 which was released on 2009-09-06. The current release of OpenLDAP is available from the following location: http://www.openldap.org/software/download/

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