Bug 887259 – CVE-2005-2395 firefox: Does not choose the challenge with the strongest authentication scheme available as required by RFC2617

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Bug 887259 - (CVE-2005-2395) CVE-2005-2395 firefox: Does not choose the challenge with the strongest authentication scheme available as required by RFC2617

Summary:	CVE-2005-2395 firefox: Does not choose the challenge with the strongest authe...

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	CVE-2005-2395

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity low
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1364463
Blocks:	887261
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Reported:	2012-12-14 08:34 EST by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified:	2016-11-08 10:55 EST (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2013-01-16 01:39:01 EST
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2012-12-14 08:34:02 EST

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2005-2395 to the following vulnerability:

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4 and 1.0.5 does not choose the challenge with the strongest authentication scheme available as required by RFC2617, which might cause credentials to be sent in plaintext even if an encrypted channel is available.

References:
[1] http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/405666
[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281851
[3] http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5PP0L00GUQ.html
[4] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14325
[5] http://www.osvdb.org/19002
[6] http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8
[7] http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/22272
[8] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=228174

Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-01-16 01:39:01 EST

Note:

Upstream bug comments suggests that Mozilla does not plan to address this issue in the short term. This seems to affects the version of Firefox shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6, and also Fedora.

Closing this bug as WONTFIX currently.

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