Description
Mozilla 1.5 through 1.7 allows a CA certificate to be imported even when their DN is the same as that of the built-in CA root certificate, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service to SSL pages because the malicious certificate is treated as invalid.
References
- http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html
- SUSE-SA:2004:036 vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2004:421 vendor-advisory
- GLSA-200408-22 vendor-advisory
- FLSA:2089 vendor-advisory
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:3134 vdb-entry signature
- 15495 vdb-entry
- mozilla-certificate-dos(16706) vdb-entry
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10304 vdb-entry signature
- VU#784278 third-party-advisory
- http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249004
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=127186