Bug 452711 (CVE-2008-2809)

Summary:	CVE-2008-2809 Firefox self signed certificate flaw
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	caillon, maurizio, security-response-team, stransky
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	1.1.10-1.fc9	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2010-12-23 21:06:33 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	450668, 450670, 450671, 450672, 450673, 450674, 451026, 451629, 453954, 453955
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Description Josh Bressers 2008-06-24 15:33:24 UTC

Mozilla developer John G. Myers reported a weakness in the trust model used by
Mozilla regarding alternate names on self-signed certificates. A user could be
prompted to accept a self-signed certificate from a website which includes
alt-name entries. If the user accepted the certificate, they would also extend
trust to any alternate domains listed in the certificate, despite not being
prompted about the additional domains. This technique could be used by an
attacker to impersonate another server.

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2008-06-24 15:33:52 UTC

This will be MFSA 2008-31

Comment 3 Josh Bressers 2008-07-02 11:44:47 UTC

This is now public:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#firefox2.0.0.15

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2008-07-06 06:13:30 UTC

devhelp-0.16.1-8.fc8, gtkmozembedmm-1.4.2.cvs20060817-21.fc8, yelp-2.20.0-10.fc8, gnome-web-photo-0.3-11.fc8, kazehakase-0.5.4-2.fc8.2, blam-1.8.3-16.fc8, epiphany-2.20.3-5.fc8, liferea-1.4.15-2.fc8, epiphany-extensions-2.20.1-8.fc8, galeon-2.0.4-3.fc8.3, openvrml-0.17.6-3.fc8, chmsee-1.0.0-2.31.fc8, ruby-gnome2-0.17.0-0.2.rc1.fc8, firefox-2.0.0.15-1.fc8, gnome-python2-extras-2.19.1-15.fc8, Miro-1.2.3-2.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2008-07-09 02:44:40 UTC

seamonkey-1.1.10-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2008-07-09 02:46:37 UTC

seamonkey-1.1.10-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2008-08-07 23:54:28 UTC

thunderbird-2.0.0.16-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2008-08-07 23:56:21 UTC

thunderbird-2.0.0.16-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 12 Vincent Danen 2010-12-23 21:06:33 UTC

This was addressed via:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 2.1 (seamonkey) RHSA-2008:0547
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 3 (seamonkey) RHSA-2008:0547
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 (seamonkey) RHSA-2008:0547
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 (firefox) RHSA-2008:0549
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 (firefox) RHSA-2008:0569
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 (thunderbird) RHSA-2008:0616
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 5 (thunderbird) RHSA-2008:0616
RHEL Optional Productivity Applications version 5 (thunderbird) RHSA-2008:0616