Description

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.

References

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

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

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109900315219363&w=2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16706

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10304

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A3134

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2