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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-36477: Mbed TLS: Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-36477: Mbed TLS: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
08/23/2021
Created
01/13/2023
Added
01/12/2023
Modified
01/12/2023

Description

An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS before 2.24.0. The verification of X.509 certificates when matching the expected common name (the cn argument of mbedtls_x509_crt_verify) with the actual certificate name is mishandled: when the subjecAltName extension is present, the expected name is compared to any name in that extension regardless of its type. This means that an attacker could impersonate a 4-byte or 16-byte domain by getting a certificate for the corresponding IPv4 or IPv6 address (this would require the attacker to control that IP address, though).

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-libs-mbedtls

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