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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-4989
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2008-4989

Description:
The _gnutls_x509_verify_certificate function in lib/x509/verify.c in libgnutls in GnuTLS before 2.6.1 trusts certificate chains in which the last certificate is an arbitrary trusted, self-signed certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to insert a spoofed certificate for any Distinguished Name (DN).

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/46482

UBUNTU
  http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-678-2
  http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-678-1

SUSE
  http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00010.html
  http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-12/msg00002.html

SUNALERT
  http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-260528-1

ST
  1021167

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA33694
  Secunia Advisory: SA33501
  Secunia Advisory: SA32681
  Secunia Advisory: SA32619
  Secunia Advisory: SA32879
  Secunia Advisory: SA35423
  Secunia Advisory: SA32687

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0982.html

OVAL
  http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11650

MLIST
  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/3215
  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/3217

MANDRIVA
  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:227

GENTOO
  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200901-10.xml

FEDORA

DEBIAN
  http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1719

CONFIRM
  http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/security.html

BID
  32232


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