CVE-2009-3766

Published: 23 October 2009

mutt_ssl.c in mutt 1.5.16 and other versions before 1.5.19, when OpenSSL is used, does not verify the domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.

Notes

per Debian, our mutt is linked against gnutls, bug #553433

Status

References

• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3766
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian

Bugs

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=553433