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FKIE_CVE-2004-0758

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2004-08-18 04:00 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:06
Severity
Summary
Mozilla 1.5 through 1.7 allows a CA certificate to be imported even when their DN is the same as that of the built-in CA root certificate, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service to SSL pages because the malicious certificate is treated as invalid.
References
cve@mitre.orgftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.49/SCOSA-2005.49.txt
cve@mitre.orghttp://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249004Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109900315219363&w=2
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200408-22.xml
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/784278US Government Resource
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_36_mozilla.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-421.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15495
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=127186
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16706
cve@mitre.orghttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10304
cve@mitre.orghttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A3134
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.49/SCOSA-2005.49.txt
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249004Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109900315219363&w=2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200408-22.xml
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/784278US Government Resource
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_36_mozilla.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-421.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15495
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=127186
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16706
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10304
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A3134
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mozilla mozilla *

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  "lastModified": "2026-06-16T22:06:18.877",
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