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...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2005-2395
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1364463
Blocks: 887261
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-12-14 13:34 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:58 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-01-16 06:39:01 UTC
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2012-12-14 13:34:02 UTC 
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 06:39:01 UTC 
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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