SciLinux: CVE-2009-3490 Moderate: wget SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64
Summary
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:27:26 -0600Reply-To: Troy DawsonSender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux From: Troy Dawson Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: wget on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64Comments: To: "scientific-linux-errata@fnal.gov" Synopsis: Moderate: wget security updateIssue date: 2009-11-03CVE Names: CVE-2009-3490CVE-2009-3490 wget: incorrect verification of SSL certificate with NUL in nameDaniel Stenberg reported that Wget is affected by the previously published "null prefix attack", caused by incorrect handling of NULL characters in X.509 certificates. If an attacker is able to get a carefully-crafted certificate signed by a trusted Certificate Authority, the attacker could use the certificate during a man-in-the-middle attack and potentially confuse Wget into accepting it by mistake. (CVE-2009-3490)SL 3.0.x SRPMS:wget-1.10.2-0.30E.1.src.rpm i386:wget-1.10.2-0.30E.1.i386.rpm x86_64:wget-1.10.2-0.30E.1.x86_64.rpmSL 4.x SRPMS:wget-1.10.2-1.el4_8.1.src.rpm i386:wget-1.10.2-1.el4_8.1.i386.rpm x86_64:wget-1.10.2-1.el4_8.1.x86_64.rpmSL 5.x SRPMS:wget-1.11.4-2.el5_4.1.src.rpm i386:wget-1.11.4-2.el5_4.1.i386.rpm x86_64:wget-1.11.4-2.el5_4.1.x86_64.rpm-Connie Sieh-Troy Dawson