From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Sat Sep 05 2009 - 00:24:10 CDT

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TITLE:
KDE KSSL NULL Character Certificate Spoofing Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA36468

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/36468/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in KDE, which can be exploited by
malicious people to conduct spoofing attacks.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in KSSL when processing
certificates having a Subject Alternative Name containing NULL ('\0')
characters. This can be exploited to e.g. conduct Man-in-the-Middle
(MitM) attacks via specially crafted certificates.

This is related to vulnerability #2 in:
SA36093

SOLUTION:
Do not rely on the security provided by SSL connections.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Independently discovered by Dan Kaminsky and Moxie Marlinspike.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520661

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA36093:
http://secunia.com/advisories/36093/

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