Mozilla Browser Non-FQDN SSL Certificate Spoofing Vulnerability

BID:10876

Info

Mozilla Browser Non-FQDN SSL Certificate Spoofing Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 10876
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-2004-0765
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Aug 05 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 12 2009 06:16AM
Credit: The individual responsible for the discovery of this issue is currently unknown; this issue was disclosed in the referenced bugzilla report.
Vulnerable: SuSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8
+ Linux kernel 2.4.21
+ Linux kernel 2.4.19
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
SuSE Linux Desktop 1.0
SuSE Linux 8.1
SGI Advanced Linux Environment 3.0
SCO Unixware 7.1.4
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.1
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.0 x86_64
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.0
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 8.2
Redhat Linux 9.0 i386
Redhat Linux 7.3 i686
Redhat Linux 7.3 i386
Redhat Linux 7.3
Redhat Fedora Core1
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6
Mozilla Firefox 0.9.2
Mozilla Firefox 0.9.1
Mozilla Firefox 0.9 rc
Mozilla Firefox 0.9
Mozilla Firefox 0.8
Mozilla Browser 1.7.1
Mozilla Browser 1.7 rc3
Mozilla Browser 1.7
Mozilla Browser 1.6
Mozilla Browser 1.5
Mozilla Browser 1.4.2
Mozilla Browser 1.4.1
Mozilla Browser 1.4 b
Mozilla Browser 1.4 a
Mozilla Browser 1.4
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 9.2 amd64
 + Mandriva Linux Mandrake 9.2
Mozilla Browser 1.3.1
Mozilla Browser 1.3
Mozilla Browser 1.2.1
Mozilla Browser 1.2 Beta
Mozilla Browser 1.2 Alpha
Mozilla Browser 1.2
Mozilla Browser 1.1 Beta
Mozilla Browser 1.1 Alpha
Mozilla Browser 1.1
Mozilla Browser 1.0.2
+ Redhat Advanced Workstation for the Itanium Processor 2.1
+ Redhat Advanced Workstation for the Itanium Processor 2.1
+ Redhat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1 IA64
 + Redhat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1 IA64
 + Redhat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1
 + Redhat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1
 + Redhat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1 IA64
 + Redhat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1 IA64
 + Redhat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1
 + Redhat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1
 + Redhat Enterprise Linux WS 2.1 IA64
 + Redhat Enterprise Linux WS 2.1 IA64
 + Redhat Enterprise Linux WS 2.1
 + Redhat Enterprise Linux WS 2.1
 + Sun Linux 5.0.7
Mozilla Browser 1.0.1
Mozilla Browser 1.0 RC2
Mozilla Browser 1.0 RC1
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.5
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.4
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.3
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.2
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.1.1
Mozilla Browser 1.0
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.2 ppc
 + Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.2
+ Redhat Linux 8.0 i386
 + Redhat Linux 8.0
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.0 AMD64
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.0
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 9.2 amd64
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 9.2
Avaya Network Routing
Not Vulnerable: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3
Mozilla Firefox 0.9.3
Mozilla Browser 1.7.2

Discussion

Mozilla Browser Non-FQDN SSL Certificate Spoofing Vulnerability

Mozilla browser is reportedly vulnerable to an SSL certificate spoofing vulnerability in the 'cert_TestHostName()' function. This issue is due to a design error that fails to properly validate certified host names.

This issue would allow an attacker to spoof a trusted certificate from a third party site, facilitating phishing style attacks by luring an unsuspecting user to enter information on what is apparently a trusted site.

Exploit / POC

Mozilla Browser Non-FQDN SSL Certificate Spoofing Vulnerability

No exploit is required to leverage this issue.

Solution / Fix

Mozilla Browser Non-FQDN SSL Certificate Spoofing Vulnerability

Solution:
Conectiva has released an advisory (CLA-2004:877) to address various issues including this issue in Mozilla. This advisory contains updated Mozilla packages (1.7.3) for Conectiva Linux 9 and 10. Please see the referenced advisory for more information.

SCO has released an advisory SCOSA-2005.25 including updated packages to address this issue. Please see the referenced advisory for more information.

Red Hat has released advisory RHSA-2004:421-17 and fixes to address this issue on Red Hat Linux Enterprise platforms. Customers who are affected by this issue are advised to apply the appropriate updates. Customers subscribed to the Red Hat Network may apply the appropriate fixes using the Red Hat Update Agent (up2date). Please see referenced advisory for additional information.

The vendor has released an upgrade dealing with this issue.

Avaya has released an advisory that acknowledges this vulnerability for Avaya products. Fixes are not currently available; customers are advised to contact the vendor for further details regarding fix availability. Please see the referenced Avaya advisory at the following location for further details:
http://support.avaya.com/japple/css/japple?temp.groupID=128450&temp.selectedFamily=128451&temp.selectedProduct=154235&temp.selectedBucket=126655&temp.feedbackState=askForFeedback&temp.documentID=198527&PAGE=avaya.css.CSSLvl1Detail&executeTransaction=avaya.css.UsageUpdate()

Slackware has released an advisory (SSA:2004-223-01) to address this issue. Please see the referenced advisory for more information.

Mandrake Linux has released advisory MDKSA-2004:082 along with fixes addressing this issue. Please see the referenced advisory for further information.

SGI has made available Patch 10095, correcting this vulnerability for systems running SGI Advanced Linux Environment 3:

Patch 10095 is available from http://support.sgi.com/ and
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/patches/ProPack/3/

The individual RPMs from Patch 10095 are available from:
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/sgi_propack/download/3/updates/RPMS
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/sgi_propack/download/3/updates/SRPMS

SuSE Linux has released advisory SUSE-SA:2004:036 along with fixes dealing with this issue. Please see the referenced advisory for more information.

The Fedora Legacy project has released advisory FLSA-2004:2089 along with fixes to address multiple issues in RedHat Fedora Core 1, and RedHat Linux 7.3 and 9.0. Please see the referenced advisory for further information.


Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2

Mozilla Firefox 0.8

Mozilla Firefox 0.9

Mozilla Firefox 0.9 rc

Mozilla Firefox 0.9.1

Mozilla Firefox 0.9.2

Mozilla Browser 1.0 RC1

Mozilla Browser 1.0 RC2

Mozilla Browser 1.0

Mozilla Browser 1.0.1

Mozilla Browser 1.0.2

Mozilla Browser 1.1

Mozilla Browser 1.1 Alpha

Mozilla Browser 1.1 Beta

Mozilla Browser 1.2 Alpha

Mozilla Browser 1.2

Mozilla Browser 1.2 Beta

Mozilla Browser 1.2.1

Mozilla Browser 1.3

Mozilla Browser 1.3.1

Mozilla Browser 1.4 b

Mozilla Browser 1.4

Mozilla Browser 1.4 a

Mozilla Browser 1.4.1

Mozilla Browser 1.4.2

Mozilla Browser 1.5

Mozilla Browser 1.6

Mozilla Browser 1.7

Mozilla Browser 1.7 rc3

Mozilla Browser 1.7.1

References

Mozilla Browser Non-FQDN SSL Certificate Spoofing Vulnerability

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