CVE-2009-0265

high

Description

Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) BIND 9.6.0 and earlier does not properly check the return value from the OpenSSL EVP_VerifyFinal function, which allows remote attackers to bypass validation of the certificate chain via a malformed SSL/TLS signature, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2008-5077 and CVE-2009-0025.

References

http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.540362

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.protocols.dns.bind/browse_thread/thread/49ef622c8329fd33

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-01-26

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: High