| Name | CVE-2009-2474 |
| Description | neon before 0.28.6, when OpenSSL or GnuTLS is used, does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, a related issue to CVE-2009-2408. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 542926 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| litmus (PTS) | bullseye | 0.13-3 | fixed |
| sid, trixie, bookworm | 0.13-5 | fixed |
| neon27 (PTS) | bullseye | 0.31.2-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 0.32.5-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 0.34.0-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[lenny] - neon27 <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[lenny] - neon26 <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[etch] - neon <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
affected neon code copy present in gnome-vfs2 [./imported/*]
affected neon code copy present in litmus [./libneon/*]
The new reintroduced litmus package removes the embedded copy