CVE-2009-2825 Information

Description

Certificate Assistant in Apple Mac OS X before 10.6.2 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 might allow 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://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3937 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36956 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3184