CVE-2009-4565 Information

Description

sendmail before 8.14.4 does not properly handle a ‘\0’ character in a Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate which (1) allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL-based SMTP servers via a crafted server certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority and (2) allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted client certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority a related issue to CVE-2009-2408.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=126953289726317&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/37998 http://secunia.com/advisories/38314 http://secunia.com/advisories/38915 http://secunia.com/advisories/39088 http://secunia.com/advisories/40109 http://secunia.com/advisories/43366 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-30.xml http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1021797.1-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1985 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0262.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37543 http://www.sendmail.org/releases/8.14.4 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3661 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0719 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1386 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0415 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10255 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11822