CVE-2010-1802 Information

Description

libsecurity in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 and 10.6.4 does not properly perform comparisons to domain-name strings in X.509 certificates which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via a certificate associated with a similar domain name as demonstrated by use of a www.example.con certificate to spoof www.example.com.

Reference

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Aug/msg00003.html http://securitytracker.com/id?1024359 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4312