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CVE-2010-3170

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Entered Topic
2010-10-20 mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2010-3170
Phase Assigned(20100827)

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.14 and 3.6.x before 3.6.11, Thunderbird before 3.0.9 and 3.1.x before 3.1.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.9 recognize a wildcard IP address in the subject's Common Name field of an X.509 certificate, which might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority.

References

Source Reference
CONFIRM http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-70.html
CONFIRM https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=578697
CONFIRM http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/multiple_vulnerabilities_in_mozilla_firefox
CONFIRM http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100114250
CONFIRM http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100120156
DEBIAN DSA-2123
MANDRIVA MDVSA-2010:210
REDHAT RHSA-2010:0781
REDHAT RHSA-2010:0782
SUSE SUSE-SR:2010:020
UBUNTU USN-1007-1
OVAL oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12254
SECUNIA 41839
SECUNIA 42867
VUPEN ADV-2011-0061