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Mozilla 1.9 M8 and earlier Mozilla Firefox 2 before 2.0.0.15 SeaMonkey 1.1.5 and other versions before 1.1.10 Netscape 9.0 and other Mozilla-based web browsers when a user accepts an SSL server certificate on the basis of the CN domain name in the DN field regard the certificate as also accepted for all domain names in subjectAltName:dNSName fields which makes it easier for remote attackers to trick a user into accepting an invalid certificate for a spoofed web site.
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10205
Mozilla 1.9 M8 and earlier Mozilla Firefox 2 before 2.0.0.15 SeaMonkey 1.1.5 and other versions before 1.1.10 Netscape 9.0 and other Mozilla-based web browsers when a user accepts an SSL server certificate on the basis of the CN domain name in the DN field regard the certificate as also accepted for all domain names in subjectAltName:dNSName fields which makes it easier for remote attackers to trick a user into accepting an invalid certificate for a spoofed web site.
Family:
unix
Status:
ACCEPTED
Platform(s):
- CentOS Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
- CentOS Linux 4
- Oracle Linux 4
- Oracle Linux 5
- CentOS Linux 3
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Class:
vulnerability
Reference(s):
- CVE-2008-2809
Product(s):