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Message-Id: <20100903141513.cb00e05a.reed@reedloden.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 14:15:13 -0700
From: Reed Loden <reed@...dloden.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>, "Steven M. Christey"
<coley@...us.mitre.org>, Richard Moore <rich@...tpoint.ltd.uk>, Simon Ward
<simon@...tpoint.ltd.uk>
Subject: Re: CVE Request 1, NSS 2, Qt: Doesn't handle
wildcards in Common Name properly
On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:20:49 +0200
Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com> wrote:
> Richard Moore and Simon Ward reported flaws in the way:
>
> 1, Network Security Services (NSS) handled wildcard (*) character
> in the Common Name field of a x509v3 digital certificate.
> If an attacker is able to get a carefully-crafted certificate,
> signed by a Certificate Authority trusted by Firefox, the attacker
> could use the certificate during the man-in-the-middle attack and
> potentially confuse Firefox into accepting it by mistake. Different
> vulnerability than CVE-2009-2408.
>
> References:
> [1] http://www.westpoint.ltd.uk/advisories/wp-10-0001.txt
> [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335731
Mozilla has assigned this CVE-2010-3170. We're tracking this as
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=578697.
~reed
Mozilla Security Group
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Reed Loden - <reed@...dloden.com>
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