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nessus-core: signature verification flaw

Package(s):nessus-core CVE #(s):CVE-2009-0125
Created:January 26, 2009 Updated:October 13, 2009
Description:

From the CVE entry:

** DISPUTED ** NOTE: this issue has been disputed by the upstream vendor. nasl/nasl_crypto2.c in the Nessus Attack Scripting Language library (aka libnasl) 2.2.11 does not properly check the return value from the OpenSSL DSA_do_verify function, which allows remote attackers to bypass validation of the certificate chain via a malformed SSL/TLS signature, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2008-5077. NOTE: the upstream vendor has disputed this issue, stating "while we do misuse this function (this is a bug), it has absolutely no security ramification."

Alerts:
Mandriva MDVSA-2009:271 2009-10-12
Fedora FEDORA-2009-0577 2009-01-16
Fedora FEDORA-2009-0636 2009-01-16
Fedora FEDORA-2009-0577 2009-01-16
Fedora FEDORA-2009-0636 2009-01-16
Fedora FEDORA-2009-0577 2009-01-16
Fedora FEDORA-2009-0636 2009-01-16
SuSE SUSE-SR:2009:003 2009-02-02

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