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CVE-2009-2404

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2009-08-04	mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

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CVE-2009-2404 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2009-2404
Phase	Assigned(20090709)

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in a regular-expression parser in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.12.3, as used in Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Evolution, Pidgin, and AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), allows remote SSL servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, related to the cert_TestHostName function.

References

Source	Reference
MISC	http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-09/MARLINSPIKE/BHUSA09-Marlinspike-DefeatSSL-SLIDES.pdf
CONFIRM	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512912
CONFIRM	http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-43.html
CONFIRM	http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2010-099504.html
DEBIAN	DSA-1874
MANDRIVA	MDVSA-2009:197
MANDRIVA	MDVSA-2009:216
REDHAT	RHSA-2009:1185
REDHAT	RHSA-2009:1207
SUNALERT	273910
SUNALERT	1021030
SUNALERT	1021699
SUSE	SUSE-SA:2009:048
UBUNTU	USN-810-1
UBUNTU	USN-810-2
CERT	TA10-103B
BID	35891
OVAL	oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11174
OVAL	oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8658
SECUNIA	36102
SECUNIA	36088
SECUNIA	36125
SECUNIA	36139
SECUNIA	36157
SECUNIA	36434
SECUNIA	39428
SECUNIA	37098
VUPEN	ADV-2009-2085