Google Chrome CA SSL Certificate Security Bypass Vulnerability (Oct 2009)

Google Chrome Web Browser is prone to a security bypass vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Microsoft IE CA SSL Certificate Security Bypass Vulnerability (Oct 2009)

Internet Explorer is prone to a security bypass vulnerability. This VT has been deprecated and replaced by the VT SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

SSL Certificate Null Character Spoofing Weakness

The remote host contains an SSL certificate with a common name containing a Null character \x00 in it. This may indicate a compromise or that a program such as SSLsniff is spoofing the certificate in order to intercept the traffic via a Man-in-The-Middle MiTM attack. Certificates with such...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : curl (curl-6411)

This update of libcurl2 fixes the 0-character handling in the subject name of a SSL certificate. This bug could be used to execute an undetected man-in-the-middle-attack. CVE-2009-2417 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : MozillaThunderbird (MozillaThunderbird-6493)

Mozilla Thunderbird was updated to version 2.0.0.23. The release fixes one security issue: MFSA 2009-42 / CVE-2009-2408: IOActive security researcher Dan Kaminsky reported a mismatch in the treatment of domain names in SSL certificates between SSL clients and the Certificate Authorities CA which...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : wget (wget-6427)

This update wget improves the handling of the 0-character in the subject name of a SSL certificate. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update wget-6427. The text description of this plug...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : libcurl2 (libcurl2-6404)

This update of libcurl2 fixes the 0-character handling in the subject name of a SSL certificate. This bug could be used to execute an undetected man-in-the-middle-attack. CVE-2009-2417 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : libcurl3 (libcurl3-6401)

This update of libcurl2 fixes the 0-character handling in the subject name of a SSL certificate. This bug could be used to execute an undetected man-in-the-middle-attack. CVE-2009-2417 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : libldap-2_4-2 (libldap-2_4-2-6488)

This update of openldap2 makes SSL certificate verification more robust against uses of the special character \0 in the subjects name. CVE-2009-2408 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security...

Researcher Publishes Valid Wildcard SSL Certificate

In the wake of Moxie Marlinspike’s SSL talk at Black Hat this summer, another security researcher has used the technique described in the talk to create and publish a valid wildcard certificate and private key that could be used to fool browsers into believing a site is legitimate when it is in...

SuSE 10 Security Update : curl (ZYPP Patch Number 6402)

This update of libcurl2 fixes the 0-character handling in the subject name of a SSL certificate. This bug could be used to execute an undetected man-in-the-middle-attack. CVE-2009-2417 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE9 Security Update : fetchmail (YOU Patch Number 12468)

This update of fetchmail improves SSL certificate validation to stop possible man-in-the-middle attacks by inserting \0-character in the certificate's subject name. CVE-2009-2666 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE 10 Security Update : GnuTLS (ZYPP Patch Number 6470)

This update of gnutls improves the verification of the domain/subject names in a SSL certificate. CVE-2009-2417 has been assigned to this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

SuSE 11 Security Update : fetchmail (SAT Patch Number 1171)

This update of fetchmail improves SSL certificate validation to stop possible man-in-the-middle attacks by inserting \0-character in the certificate's subject name. CVE-2009-2666 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

SuSE 11 Security Update : perl-IO-Socket-SSL (SAT Patch Number 1265)

This update of perl-IO-Socket-SSL improves the hostname checking of the SSL certificate. CVE-2009-3024 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from SuSE 11 update information. The text itself is copyright C Novell,...

SuSE9 Security Update : GnuTLS (YOU Patch Number 12501)

This update of GnuTLS improves the verification of the domain/subject names in a SSL certificate. CVE-2009-2730 has been assigned to this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

SuSE 10 Security Update : fetchmail (ZYPP Patch Number 6409)

This update of fetchmail improves SSL certificate validation to stop possible man-in-the-middle attacks by inserting \0-character in the certificate's subject name. CVE-2009-2666 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE 11 Security Update : GnuTLS (SAT Patch Number 1260)

This update of gnutls improves the verification of the domain/subject names in a SSL certificate. CVE-2009-2730 has been assigned to this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from SuSE 11 update...

SuSE 11 Security Update : Mozilla Firefox (SAT Patch Number 1199)

The Mozilla NSS security framework was updated to version 3.12.3.1. - Heap-based buffer overflow in a regular-expression parser in Mozilla Network Security Services NSS before 3.12.3, as used in Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Evolution, Pidgin, and AOL Instant Messenger AIM, allows remote SSL...

SuSE9 Security Update : curl (YOU Patch Number 12467)

This update of libcurl2 fixes the 0-character handling in the subject name of a SSL certificate. This bug could be used to execute an undetected man-in-the-middle-attack. CVE-2009-2417 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...