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CVE-2008-4989

Published: 11/13/2008 Last updated: 8/7/2024 Reserved: 11/6/2008

The _gnutls_x509_verify_certificate function in lib/x509/verify.c in libgnutls in GnuTLS before 2.6.1 trusts certificate chains in which the last certificate is an arbitrary trusted, self-signed certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to insert a spoofed certificate for any Distinguished Name (DN).

CNA assigner: mitre (8254265b-2729-46b6-b9e3-3dfca2d5bfca) Requested by: n/a

Opam packages affected (5)

conf-gnutls conf-mingw-w64-gnutls-i686 conf-mingw-w64-gnutls-x86_64 conf-srt conf-srt-gnutls

Products affected (1)

Product Vendor Version
n/a n/a 7.7.12

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