CVE-2004-0765 Information

Description

The cert_TestHostName function in Mozilla before 1.7 Firefox before 0.9 and Thunderbird before 0.7 only checks the hostname portion of a certificate when the hostname portion of the URI is not a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) which allows remote attackers to spoof trusted certificates.

Reference

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234058 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109900315219363&w=2 http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.htmlmozilla1.7 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_36_mozilla.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-421.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16868 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11162