CVE-2009-2702 Information

Description

KDE KSSL in kdelibs 3.5.4 4.2.4 and 4.3 does not properly handle a ‘\0’ character in a domain name in the Subject Alternative Name 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://secunia.com/advisories/36468 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:330 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:162 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2532 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520661