CVE-2008-2809

CVE Details

Release Date:	2008-07-08
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

Description

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.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	4.0
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	High
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	Partial
Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (seamonkey)	ELSA-2008-0547	2008-07-02
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (firefox)	ELSA-2008-0549	2008-07-02
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (seamonkey)	ELSA-2008-0547	2008-07-02
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2008-0616	2008-07-24
Oracle Linux version 5 (devhelp)	ELSA-2008-0569	2008-07-02
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2008-0569	2008-07-02
Oracle Linux version 5 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2008-0569	2008-07-02
Oracle Linux version 5 (yelp)	ELSA-2008-0569	2008-07-02