CVE-2009-5138
Description
GnuTLS before 2.7.6, when the GNUTLS_VERIFY_ALLOW_X509_V1_CA_CRT flag is not enabled, treats version 1 X.509 certificates as intermediate CAs, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended restrictions by leveraging a X.509 V1 certificate from a trusted CA to issue new certificates, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-1959.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 0 |
| sid | Fixed | 0 |
| forky | Fixed | 0 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 0 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 0 |
References
- http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/12223
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00003.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00020.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0247.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57254
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57260
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57274
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57321
- http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/3351/focus=3361
- http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/12127
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1069301
- https://gitorious.org/gnutls/gnutls/commit/c8dcbedd1fdc312f5b1a70fcfbc1afe235d800cd
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-5138
CWEs
CWE-264
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.