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Message-ID: <20100903214616.GK6206@radis.liafa.jussieu.fr>
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 23:46:16 +0200
From: Julien Cristau <jcristau@...ian.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>,
"Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>,
Richard Moore <rich@...tpoint.ltd.uk>,
Simon Ward <simon@...tpoint.ltd.uk>
Subject: Re: CVE Request 1, NSS 2, Qt: Doesn't handle
wildcards in Common Name properly
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 14:15:13 -0700, Reed Loden wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:20:49 +0200
> Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> > Richard Moore and Simon Ward reported flaws in the way:
> >
> > 1, Network Security Services (NSS) handled wildcard (*) character
> > in the Common Name field of a x509v3 digital certificate.
> > If an attacker is able to get a carefully-crafted certificate,
> > signed by a Certificate Authority trusted by Firefox, the attacker
> > could use the certificate during the man-in-the-middle attack and
> > potentially confuse Firefox into accepting it by mistake. Different
> > vulnerability than CVE-2009-2408.
> >
> > References:
> > [1] http://www.westpoint.ltd.uk/advisories/wp-10-0001.txt
> > [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335731
>
> Mozilla has assigned this CVE-2010-3170. We're tracking this as
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=578697.
>
That bug is helpfully (or not) closed down.
Cheers,
Julien
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