CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-3765
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-10-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-310
Description
mutt_ssl.c in mutt 1.5.19 and 1.5.20, when OpenSSL is used, 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
• mutt mutt 1.5.19
• mutt mutt 1.5.20
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://dev.mutt.org/trac/changeset/6016:dc09812e63a3/mutt_ssl.c dev.mutt.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00001.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125198917018936&w=2 marc.info
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125369675820512&w=2 marc.info
- http://dev.mutt.org/trac/changeset/6016:dc09812e63a3/mutt_ssl.c dev.mutt.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00001.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125198917018936&w=2 marc.info
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125369675820512&w=2 marc.info