CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-0124
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-01-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-287
Description
The tqsl_verifyDataBlock function in openssl_cert.cpp in American Radio Relay League (ARRL) tqsllib 2.0 does not properly check the return value from the OpenSSL EVP_VerifyFinal function, which allows remote attackers to bypass validation of the certificate chain via a malformed SSL/TLS signature, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2008-5077.
Affected configurations
• arrl tqsllib 2.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness
Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)
- CWE-296 Improper Following of a Certificate's Chain of Trust weakness
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511509 Exploit
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/12/4 openwall.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33543 secunia.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479650 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg00557.html www.redhat.com
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511509 Exploit
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/12/4 openwall.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33543 secunia.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479650 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg00557.html www.redhat.com