Sun Alert 267031 Heap Overflow in a Regular Expression Parser in Network Security Services (NSS) may Affect SSL Clients (CVE-2009-2404)

Product: Solaris 9 Operating System Solaris 10 Operating System Sun Java Enterprise System 5 Sun Java Enterprise System 2005 A heap overflow vulnerability in Network Security Services (NSS) may allow a remote SSL server to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) to SSL client applications or to possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the SSL client application, via a long domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, related to the "cert_TestHostName" function. ...

Product: Solaris 9 Operating System Solaris 10 Operating System Sun Java Enterprise System 5 Sun Java Enterprise System 2005

A heap overflow vulnerability in Network Security Services (NSS) may allow a remote SSL server to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) to SSL client applications or to possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the SSL client application, via a long domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, related to the "cert_TestHostName" function.

Firefox, Thunderbird, Pidgin and Evolution are examples of vulnerable SSL client applications.

This issue is also described in the following document:

    CVE-2009-2404 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2404

State: Resolved
First released: 13-Oct-2009

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Written on Monday, 12 October 2009 19:00 by GSO

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