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Microsoft Windows CryptoAPI Two Spoofing Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA36999
Release Date: 2009-10-13
Popularity: 1,172 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Spoofing
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Microsoft Windows 7
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Web Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Microsoft Windows XP Professional

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Description:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Microsoft Windows, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct spoofing attacks.

1) An error exists in the processing of ASN.1 information from X.509 certificates. This can be exploited to spoof trust information presented to the user with a certificate containing e.g. via a NULL byte in the Common Name field.

2) An integer overflow error exists in the parsing of ASN.1 object identifiers from X.509 certificates. This can be exploited to spoof trust information presented to the user with a certificate containing a specially crafted Object Identifiers (OID).

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