CVE-2009-2408

Published: 30 July 2009

Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.12.3, Firefox before 3.0.13, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.23, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.18 do not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority. NOTE: this was originally reported for Firefox before 3.5.

Status

References

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2408
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-810-1
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian