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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:34:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
cc: libesmtp@...fford.uklinux.net, security@...ntu.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request: libesmtp does not check NULL bytes
 in commonName


On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Kees Cook wrote:

> I just noticed that libesmtp does not appear to handle NULL-byte CNs, as
> seen with the original browser-based issue:
> http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2408

Use CVE-2010-1192

> Related to this are failures in wildcard handling:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=311191

Use CVE-2010-1194

I'm guessing that upstream 1.0.4 and earlier are affected by both 
problems.

- Steve

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