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CVE-2009-2825

Certificate Assistant in Apple Mac OS X before 10.6.2 does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) field of an …

Impact

Certificate Assistant in Apple Mac OS X before 10.6.2 does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, which might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, a related issue to CVE-2009-2408.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
AppleMac Os X
through 10.6.1
Versions 10.0, 10.0.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2, 10.0.3
AppleMac Os X Server
through 10.6.1
Versions 10.0, 10.0.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2, 10.0.3

Weakness classification

CWE-310

References