SB2009073004 - Cryptographic issues in OpenSSL
Published: July 30, 2009 Updated: July 28, 2020
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Cryptographic issues (CVE-ID: CVE-2009-2409)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
The Network Security Services (NSS) library before 3.12.3, as used in Firefox; GnuTLS before 2.6.4 and 2.7.4; OpenSSL 0.9.8 through 0.9.8k; and other products support MD2 with X.509 certificates, which might allow remote attackers to spoof certificates by using MD2 design flaws to generate a hash collision in less than brute-force time. NOTE: the scope of this issue is currently limited because the amount of computation required is still large.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/ReleaseNotes.html
- http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/6u17.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36139
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36157
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36434
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36669
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36739
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37386
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42467
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200911-02.xml
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200912-01.xml
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3937
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1874
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:197
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:216
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:258
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:084
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1207.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1432.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/515055/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022631
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-810-1
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2010-0019.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2085
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3184
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3126
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-2409
- https://lists.balabit.com/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2011-January/000101.html
- https://lists.balabit.com/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2011-January/000102.html
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10763
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6631
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7155
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8594
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0095.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/810-2/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1888