CVE-2009-4565 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2009-4565 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 568017 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2010:006, published Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:11:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 07:06:04 2013
CVE page last modified: Thu Sep 19 15:11:35 2024