CVE-2008-2809

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2008-07-02
Bugzilla:
452711: CVE-2008-2809 Firefox self signed certificate flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Mozilla 1.9 M8 and earlier, Mozilla Firefox 2 before 2.0.0.15, SeaMonkey 1.1.5 and other versions before 1.1.10, Netscape 9.0, and other Mozilla-based web browsers, when a user accepts an SSL server certificate on the basis of the CN domain name in the DN field, regard the certificate as also accepted for all domain names in subjectAltName:dNSName fields, which makes it easier for remote attackers to trick a user into accepting an invalid certificate for a spoofed web site.

Find out more about CVE-2008-2809 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (firefox) RHSA-2008:0549 2008-07-02
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (seamonkey) RHSA-2008:0547 2008-07-02
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (thunderbird) RHSA-2008:0616 2008-07-23
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RHSA-2008:0569 2008-07-02
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (seamonkey) RHSA-2008:0547 2008-07-02
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) (thunderbird) RHSA-2008:0616 2008-07-23
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (thunderbird) RHSA-2008:0616 2008-07-23
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (seamonkey) RHSA-2008:0547 2008-07-02

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