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CVE-2009-0265 (GCVE-0-2009-0265)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-01-26 15:05 – Updated: 2024-08-07 04:24
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Summary
Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) BIND 9.6.0 and earlier does not properly check the return value from the OpenSSL EVP_VerifyFinal 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 and CVE-2009-0025.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://secunia.com/advisories/33559 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0043 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackw… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SLACKWARE
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.protocols.dns… x_refsource_MISC
https://www.isc.org/node/373 x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2009-01-07 00:00
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