FKIE_CVE-2009-5138

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2014-03-07 00:10 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:15
Severity
Summary
GnuTLS before 2.7.6, when the GNUTLS_VERIFY_ALLOW_X509_V1_CA_CRT flag is not enabled, treats version 1 X.509 certificates as intermediate CAs, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended restrictions by leveraging a X.509 V1 certificate from a trusted CA to issue new certificates, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-1959.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/12223
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00000.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00001.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00003.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00020.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0247.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/57254
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/57260
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/57274
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/57321
secalert@redhat.comhttp://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/3351/focus=3361
secalert@redhat.comhttp://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/12127
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1069301
secalert@redhat.comhttps://gitorious.org/gnutls/gnutls/commit/c8dcbedd1fdc312f5b1a70fcfbc1afe235d800cdExploit, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/12223
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00000.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00001.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00003.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00020.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0247.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/57254
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/57260
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/57274
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/57321
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/3351/focus=3361
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/12127
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1069301
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gitorious.org/gnutls/gnutls/commit/c8dcbedd1fdc312f5b1a70fcfbc1afe235d800cdExploit, Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
gnu gnutls *
gnu gnutls 2.7.0
gnu gnutls 2.7.1
gnu gnutls 2.7.2
gnu gnutls 2.7.3
gnu gnutls 2.7.4
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