CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-4565
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-01-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-310
Description
sendmail before 8.14.4 does not properly handle a '\0' character in a Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, which (1) allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL-based SMTP servers via a crafted server certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, and (2) allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted client certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, a related issue to CVE-2009-2408.
Affected configurations
• sendmail sendmail (<= 8.14.3)
• sendmail sendmail 2.6
• sendmail sendmail 2.6.1
• sendmail sendmail 3.0
• sendmail sendmail 3.0.1
• sendmail sendmail 4.1
• sendmail sendmail 4.55
• sendmail sendmail 5
• sendmail sendmail 5.59
• sendmail sendmail 5.61
• sendmail sendmail 5.65
• sendmail sendmail 8.6.7
• sendmail sendmail 8.7.6
• sendmail sendmail 8.7.7
• sendmail sendmail 8.7.8
• sendmail sendmail 8.7.9
• sendmail sendmail 8.7.10
• sendmail sendmail 8.8.8
• sendmail sendmail 8.9.0
• sendmail sendmail 8.9.1
• sendmail sendmail 8.9.2
• sendmail sendmail 8.9.3
• sendmail sendmail 8.10
• sendmail sendmail 8.10.0
• sendmail sendmail 8.10.1
• sendmail sendmail 8.10.2
• sendmail sendmail 8.11.0
• sendmail sendmail 8.11.1
• sendmail sendmail 8.11.2
• sendmail sendmail 8.11.3
• sendmail sendmail 8.11.4
• sendmail sendmail 8.11.5
• sendmail sendmail 8.11.6
• sendmail sendmail 8.11.7
• sendmail sendmail 8.12
• sendmail sendmail 8.12.0
• sendmail sendmail 8.12.1
• sendmail sendmail 8.12.2
• sendmail sendmail 8.12.3
• sendmail sendmail 8.12.4
• sendmail sendmail 8.12.5
• sendmail sendmail 8.12.6
• sendmail sendmail 8.12.7
• sendmail sendmail 8.12.8
• sendmail sendmail 8.12.9
• sendmail sendmail 8.12.10
• sendmail sendmail 8.13.0
• sendmail sendmail 8.13.1
• sendmail sendmail 8.13.1.2
• sendmail sendmail 8.13.2
• sendmail sendmail 8.13.3
• sendmail sendmail 8.13.4
• sendmail sendmail 8.13.5
• sendmail sendmail 8.13.6
• sendmail sendmail 8.13.7
• sendmail sendmail 8.13.8
• sendmail sendmail 8.14.1
• sendmail sendmail 8.14.2
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)
- CWE-297 Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=126953289726317&w=2 marc.info
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37998 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38314 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38915 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39088 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40109 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43366 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-30.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1021797.1-1 sunsolve.sun.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1985 www.debian.org
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0262.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37543 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.sendmail.org/releases/8.14.4 Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3661 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0719 www.vupen.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1386 www.vupen.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0415 www.vupen.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10255 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11822 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=126953289726317&w=2 marc.info
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37998 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38314 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38915 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39088 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40109 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43366 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-30.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1021797.1-1 sunsolve.sun.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1985 www.debian.org
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0262.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37543 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.sendmail.org/releases/8.14.4 Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3661 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0719 www.vupen.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1386 www.vupen.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0415 www.vupen.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10255 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11822 oval.cisecurity.org