CVE-2009-0049 Information

Description

Belgian eID middleware (eidlib) 2.6.0 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://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00000.html http://secunia.com/advisories/34029 http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-016.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499827/100/0/threaded