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msmtp SSL Certificate NULL Character Processing Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA37321
Release Date: 2009-11-13
Last Update: 2009-11-18
Popularity: 497 views

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

Software:msmtp 1.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in msmtp, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct spoofing attacks.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing SSL certificates containing NULL characters embedded in certain certificate fields and can be exploited to spoof certificates for legitimate domains.

This is related to vulnerability #2 in:
SA36093

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.4.19.

Change Page:
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