CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-0126
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 decrypt_public function in lib/crypt.cpp in the client in Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) 6.2.14 and 6.4.5 does not check the return value from the OpenSSL RSA_public_decrypt 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
• berkeley boinc client 6.2.14
• berkeley boinc client 6.4.5
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness
References
- http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/changeset/16883 boinc.berkeley.edu
- http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/ticket/823 Vendor Advisory
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511521 Exploit
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00000.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/12/4 openwall.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33806 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33828 secunia.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479664 Exploit
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-February/msg00034.html www.redhat.com
- http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/changeset/16883 boinc.berkeley.edu
- http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/ticket/823 Vendor Advisory
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511521 Exploit
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00000.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/12/4 openwall.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33806 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33828 secunia.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479664 Exploit
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-February/msg00034.html www.redhat.com