[ MDVSA-2009:228 ] libneon

[dude67]

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Package : libneon
Date : September 10, 2009
Affected: 2008.1, 2009.0, 2009.1, Corporate 3.0, Corporate 4.0,
Enterprise Server 5.0, Multi Network Firewall 2.0
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Problem Description:

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in neon:

neon before 0.28.6, when OpenSSL is used, 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 allows 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. (CVE-2009-2474)

This update provides a solution to this vulnerability.
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg ... -2009-2474
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