National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2004-0758

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#784278

Name: VU#784278

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/784278

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249004

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249004

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=127186

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=127186

External Source: XF

Name: mozilla-certificate-dos(16706)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/16706

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2004:421

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-421.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2004:036

Hyperlink:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_36_mozilla.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html

Hyperlink:http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200408-22

Hyperlink:http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200408-22.xml

External Source: BID

Name: 15495

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15495

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FLSA:2089

Hyperlink:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=109900315219363&w=2

External Source: SCO

Name: SCOSA-2005.49

Hyperlink:ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.49/SCOSA-2005.49.txt

US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:3134

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:3134

Type: Tool Signature

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:3134