CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-2666
6.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-08-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-310
Description
socket.c in fetchmail before 6.3.11 does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) 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.
Affected configurations
• fetchmail fetchmail (<= 6.3.10)
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.5.1
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.5.2
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.5.3
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.5.4
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.5.5
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.5.6
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.5.7
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.5.8
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.6.0
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.6.1
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.6.2
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.6.3
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.6.4
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.6.5
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.6.6
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.6.7
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.6.8
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.6.9
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.7.0
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.7.1
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.7.2
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.7.3
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.7.4
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.7.5
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.7.6
• fetchmail fetchmail 4.7.7
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.0.0
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.0.1
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.0.2
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.0.3
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.0.4
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.0.5
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.0.6
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.0.7
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.0.8
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.1.0
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.1.4
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.2.0
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.2.1
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.2.3
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.2.4
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.2.7
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.2.8
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.3.0
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.3.1
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.3.3
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.3.8
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.4.0
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.4.3
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.4.4
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.4.5
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.5.0
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.5.2
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.5.3
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.5.5
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.5.6
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.6.0
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.7.0
• fetchmail fetchmail 5.7.2
… and 43 more
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2009-01.txt fetchmail.berlios.de
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html lists.apple.com
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=124949601207156&w=2 marc.info
- http://osvdb.org/56855 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36175 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36179 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36236 Vendor Advisory
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3937 support.apple.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1852 www.debian.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:201 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505530/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35951 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022679 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.543463 www.slackware.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2155 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3184 Vendor Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11059 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2009-01.txt fetchmail.berlios.de
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html lists.apple.com
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=124949601207156&w=2 marc.info
- http://osvdb.org/56855 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36175 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36179 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36236 Vendor Advisory
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3937 support.apple.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1852 www.debian.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:201 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505530/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35951 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022679 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.543463 www.slackware.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2155 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3184 Vendor Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11059 oval.cisecurity.org