CVE-2009-3942 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2009-3942 at MITRE

Description

Martin Lambers msmtp before 1.4.19, when OpenSSL is used, does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the (1) subject's Common Name or (2) Subject Alternative Name 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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.4
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 557181 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2010:001, published Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 07:04:41 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:35:56 2023