CVE-2009-2474

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)	buster	0.13-2	fixed
	bullseye	0.13-3	fixed
	sid, trixie, bookworm	0.13-5	fixed
neon27 (PTS)	buster	0.30.2-3	fixed
	bullseye	0.31.2-1	fixed
	bookworm	0.32.5-1	fixed
	trixie	0.33.0-1	fixed
	sid	0.33.0-1.1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Debian Bugs
gnome-vfs2	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)
litmus	source	(unstable)	0.13-1
neon	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)	low	542926
neon26	source	(unstable)	0.26.4-3	low	542926
neon27	source	(unstable)	0.28.6-1	low	542926

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