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CVE-2020-7043

An issue was discovered in openfortivpn 1.11.0 when used with OpenSSL before 1.0.2.

Impact

An issue was discovered in openfortivpn 1.11.0 when used with OpenSSL before 1.0.2. tunnel.c mishandles certificate validation because hostname comparisons do not consider '\0' characters, as demonstrated by a good.example.com\x00evil.example.com attack.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
Openfortivpn ProjectOpenfortivpn
before 1.12.0
FedoraprojectFedora
Versions 30, 31, 32
OpensuseBackports Sle
Version 15.0
OpensuseLeap
Version 15.1

Weakness classification

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