Secure testing team - Sep 2009 - Bug#546212: CVE-2009-2702: KDE KSSL NULL Character Certificate Spoofing Vulnerability

Package: kdelibs,kde4libs
Severity: serious
Tags: security

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Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for kdelibs and kde4libs.

CVE-2009-2702[0]:
| KDE KSSL in kdelibs 3.5.4, 4.2.4, and 4.3 does not properly handle a
| ''\0'' character in a domain name in the Subject Alternative
Name 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.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2702
    http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2009-2702

Cheers,
Giuseppe

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