CVE-2009-0126

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    CVE-2009-0126

    Published: 15 Jan 2009Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: The decrypt_public function in lib/crypt.cpp in the client in Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) 6.2.14 and 6.4.5 does not check the return value from the OpenSSL RSA_public_decrypt function, which allows remote attackers to bypass validation of the certificate chain via a malformed SSL/TLS signature, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2008-5077.

    References: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/ticket/823, http://secunia.com/advisories/33806, http://secunia.com/advisories/33828, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511521, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479664, http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/changeset/16883, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00000.html, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/12/4, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-February/msg00034.html

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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