CVE-2009-2409
Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / CVE-2009-2409
Summary:
Details: The Network Security Services (NSS) library before 3.12.3, as used in Firefox; GnuTLS before 2.6.4 and 2.7.4; OpenSSL 0.9.8 through 0.9.8k; and other products support MD2 with X.509 certificates, which might allow remote attackers to spoof certificates by using MD2 design flaws to generate a hash collision in less than brute-force time. NOTE: the scope of this issue is currently limited because the amount of computation required is still large.
References: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/6u17.html, http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html, http://secunia.com/advisories/36139, http://secunia.com/advisories/36157, http://secunia.com/advisories/36434, http://secunia.com/advisories/36669, http://secunia.com/advisories/36739, http://secunia.com/advisories/37386, http://secunia.com/advisories/42467, http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200911-02.xml, http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200912-01.xml, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:197, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:216, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:258, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:084, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1207.html, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1432.html, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-810-1, http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2010-0019.html, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2085, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3184, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3126, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-2409, https://lists.balabit.com/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2011-January/000101.html, https://lists.balabit.com/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2011-January/000102.html, https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0095.html, https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1888, http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1874, https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1888, http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/ReleaseNotes.html, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3937, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/515055/100/0/threaded, http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022631, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10763, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6631, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7155, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8594, https://usn.ubuntu.com/810-2/
