CVE-2008-5077 Information

Description

OpenSSL 0.9.8i and earlier does not properly check the return value from the EVP_VerifyFinal function which allows remote attackers to bypass validation of the certificate chain via a malformed SSL/TLS signature for DSA and ECDSA keys.

Reference

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-07/msg00013.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-07/msg00014.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=123859864430555&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=124277349419254&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=127678688104458&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/33338 http://secunia.com/advisories/33394 http://secunia.com/advisories/33436 http://secunia.com/advisories/33557 http://secunia.com/advisories/33673 http://secunia.com/advisories/33765 http://secunia.com/advisories/34211 http://secunia.com/advisories/35074 http://secunia.com/advisories/35108 http://secunia.com/advisories/39005 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200902-02.xml http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.544796 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-250826-1 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3549 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-038.htm http://support.nortel.com/go/main.jsp?cscat=BLTNDETAIL&id=837653 http://voodoo-circle.sourceforge.net/sa/sa-20090123-01.html http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-016.html http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20090107.txt http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0004.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499827/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/502322/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33150 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021523 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-133A.html http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0004.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0040 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0289 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0362 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0558 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0904 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0913 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1297 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1338 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A6380 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9155 https://usn.ubuntu.com/704-1/