CVE-2009-0047 Information

Description

Gale 0.99 and earlier does not properly check the return value from the OpenSSL 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 a similar vulnerability to CVE-2008-5077.

Reference

http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-016.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499827/100/0/threaded http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0046