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CVE-2009-3490
Published: Sep 30, 2009
Modified: Aug 7, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
GNU Wget before 1.12 does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the Common Name field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle remote attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, a related issue to CVE-2009-2408.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
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n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
[bug-wget] 20090922 Release: GNU Wget 1.12
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[oss-security] 20090923 Re: More CVE-2009-2408 like issues
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ADV-2009-2498
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520454
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[wget-notify] 20090805 [bug #27183] Wget likely suffers from the \0 SSL cert vulnerability
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http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
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36540
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36205
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oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11099
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http://hg.addictivecode.org/wget/mainline/rev/1eab157d3be7
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[oss-security] 20090903 More CVE-2009-2408 like issues
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