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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:41:21 +0200
From: Tomas Hoger <thoger@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: coley <coley@...re.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request: irssi 0.8.15
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:41:34 -0400 (EDT) Josh Bressers
<bressers@...hat.com> wrote:
> It fixes the old "does not properly handle a '\0' character in a
> domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) field" flaw, plus also
> verifies that the server being connected to is the one listed in the
> certificate.
>
> Let's assign these as such:
> CVE-2010-1154 irssi 0.8.15 /0 in CN field
> CVE-2010-1155 irssi 0.8.15 certificate host validation
I believe assignment of CVE-2010-1154 is redundant here, given that
CVE-2010-1155 is about the completely missing server name check. If it
wasn't checking names, it wasn't handling \0 in names incorrectly.
--
Tomas Hoger / Red Hat Security Response Team
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