CVE-2009-3490 Information

Description

GNU Wget before 1.12 does not properly handle a ‘\0’ character in a domain name in the Common Name field of an X.509 certificate which allows man-in-the-middle remote 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://addictivecode.org/pipermail/wget-notify/2009-August/001808.html http://hg.addictivecode.org/wget/mainline/rev/1eab157d3be7 http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705 http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125198917018936&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125369675820512&w=2 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.wget.general/8972 http://secunia.com/advisories/36540 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36205 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2498 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520454 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11099