CVE-2009-2666 Information

Description

socket.c in fetchmail before 6.3.11 does not properly handle a ‘\0’ character in a domain name in the subject’s Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority a related issue to CVE-2009-2408.

Reference

http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2009-01.txt http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=124949601207156&w=2 http://osvdb.org/56855 http://secunia.com/advisories/36175 http://secunia.com/advisories/36179 http://secunia.com/advisories/36236 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3937 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1852 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:201 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505530/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35951 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022679 http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.543463 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2155 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3184 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11059