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CVE-2009-0126
CVE information
Published
Last Modified
CVSSv2.0 Severity
Impact Analysis
Description
The decrypt_public function in lib/crypt.cpp in the client in Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) 6.2.14 and 6.4.5 does not check the return value from the OpenSSL RSA_public_decrypt 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..
CVSSv2.0 Score
- Severity
- Medium
- Base Score
- 5/10
- Exploit Score
- 10/10
- Access Vector
- Network
- Access Complexity
- Low
- Authentication Required
- None
- Impact Score
- 2.9/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- Partial
- Availability Impact
- None
- Integrity Impact
- None
Products Affected
CPE | Affected | Vulnerable | Excluding | Edit |
---|---|---|---|---|
cpe:2.3:a:berkeley:boinc_client:6.4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:berkeley:boinc_client:6.2.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - |
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/12/4
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479664
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511521
- http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/ticket/823
- http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/changeset/16883
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00000.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-February/msg00034.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33806
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33828