Description
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.
Published: 2008-07-08
Score: 4.0 Medium
EPSS: 2.0% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1607-1 New iceweasel packages fix several vulnerabilities
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1615-1 New xulrunner packages fix several vulnerabilities
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1621-1 New icedove packages fix several vulnerabilities
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1697-1 New iceape packages fix several vulnerabilities
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2008-2802 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-619-1 Firefox vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-629-1 Thunderbird vulnerabilities
References
Link Providers
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00004.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://nils.toedtmann.net/pub/subjectAltName.txt cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0616.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/30878 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/30898 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/30903 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/30911 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/30949 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31005 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31008 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31021 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31023 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31069 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31076 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31183 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31195 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31220 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31253 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31286 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31377 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31403 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33433 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34501 cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-03.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3498 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018979 cve-icon cve-icon
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.383152 cve-icon cve-icon
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.384911 cve-icon cve-icon
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.410484 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0216 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1607 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1615 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1621 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:136 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:155 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#firefox2.0.0.15 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-31.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0547.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0549.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0569.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483929/100/100/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483937/100/100/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483960/100/100/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494080/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30038 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020419 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-619-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-629-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1993/references cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240261 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327181 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402347 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43524 cve-icon cve-icon
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2646 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2809 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10205 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2809 cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-August/msg00125.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-August/msg00144.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00207.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00288.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00295.html cve-icon cve-icon
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Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T09:14:14.905Z

Reserved: 2008-06-20T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-2809

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-07-08T23:41:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2008-2809

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2008-07-02T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-2809 - Bugzilla

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