CVE-2009-0653

Publication date 20 February 2009

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

OpenSSL, probably 0.9.6, does not verify the Basic Constraints for an intermediate CA-signed certificate, which allows remote attackers to spoof the certificates of trusted sites via a man-in-the-middle attack, a related issue to CVE-2002-0970.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

No maintained releases are affected by this CVE.

Package Ubuntu Release Status
openssl 8.10 intrepid
Not affected
8.04 LTS hardy
Not affected
7.10 gutsy
Not affected
6.06 LTS dapper
Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

upstream says this was fixed in 0.9.5 http://marc.info/?l=openssl-dev&m=123603013118058&w=3