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USN-835-1: neon vulnerabilities

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USN-835-1: neon vulnerabilities

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
08/21/2009
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

neon before 0.28.6, when OpenSSL or GnuTLS is used, does not properly handle a '

neon before 0.28.6, when OpenSSL or GnuTLS is used, 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 allows 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.

' character in a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, which allows 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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libneon27
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libneon27-gnutls

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