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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:41:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request: w3m does not check null bytes
 CN/subjAltName

Please use CVE-2010-2074 for this.

Thanks.

-- 
    JB


----- "Ludwig Nussel" <ludwig.nussel@...e.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Yet another occurrence of CVE-2009-2408, this time in w3m. I tried
> contacting the w3m developers listed on sourceforge but got no
> response. In the default configuration the missing null checks don't
> make the situation worse though as w3m doesn't verify certificates
> by default ('ssl_verify_server' is off by default). Attached two
> patches turn on 'ssl_verify_server' and fix the null handling.
> 
> cu
> Ludwig
> 
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>  (o_   Ludwig Nussel
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