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CVE-2008-4989

Impact:: Moderate
Public Date:: 2008-11-10

Bugzilla:: 470079: CVE-2008-4989 gnutls: certificate chain verification flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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).

Find out more about CVE-2008-4989 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (gnutls)	RHSA-2008:0982	2008-11-11

Last Modified 2018-05-01T09:50:36+00:00

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