CVE-2008-2809 Information

Description

Mozilla 1.9 M8 and earlier Mozilla Firefox 2 before 2.0.0.15 SeaMonkey 1.1.5 and other versions before 1.1.10 Netscape 9.0 and other Mozilla-based web browsers when a user accepts an SSL server certificate on the basis of the CN domain name in the DN field regard the certificate as also accepted for all domain names in subjectAltName:dNSName fields which makes it easier for remote attackers to trick a user into accepting an invalid certificate for a spoofed web site.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00004.html http://nils.toedtmann.net/pub/subjectAltName.txt http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0616.html http://secunia.com/advisories/30878 http://secunia.com/advisories/30898 http://secunia.com/advisories/30903 http://secunia.com/advisories/30911 http://secunia.com/advisories/30949 http://secunia.com/advisories/31005 http://secunia.com/advisories/31008 http://secunia.com/advisories/31021 http://secunia.com/advisories/31023 http://secunia.com/advisories/31069 http://secunia.com/advisories/31076 http://secunia.com/advisories/31183 http://secunia.com/advisories/31195 http://secunia.com/advisories/31220 http://secunia.com/advisories/31253 http://secunia.com/advisories/31286 http://secunia.com/advisories/31377 http://secunia.com/advisories/31403 http://secunia.com/advisories/33433 http://secunia.com/advisories/34501 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-03.xml http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3498 http://securitytracker.com/id?1018979 http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.383152 http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.384911 http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.410484 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1 http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0216 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1607 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1615 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1621 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:136 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:155 http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.htmlfirefox2.0.0.15 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-31.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0547.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0549.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0569.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483929/100/100/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483937/100/100/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483960/100/100/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494080/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30038 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020419 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-619-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-629-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1993/references http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240261 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327181 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402347 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43524 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2646 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10205 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-August/msg00125.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-August/msg00144.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00207.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00288.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00295.html