Description
The cert_TestHostName function in Mozilla before 1.7, Firefox before 0.9, and Thunderbird before 0.7, only checks the hostname portion of a certificate when the hostname portion of the URI is not a fully qualified domain name (FQDN), which allows remote attackers to spoof trusted certificates.
References
- http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234058
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11162 vdb-entry signature
- SUSE-SA:2004:036 vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2004:421 vendor-advisory
- mozilla-certtesthostname-certificate-spoof(16868) vdb-entry
- http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#mozilla1.7
- FLSA:2089 vendor-advisory