Unscored CVE-2009-0047 EUVD-2009-0056GHSA-7r33-3gh8-245q

Gale 0.99 and earlier does not properly check the return value from the OpenSSL EVP_VerifyFinal function, which allows remote attackers to …

Published Jan 7, 2009 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Gale 0.99 and earlier does not properly check the return value from the OpenSSL EVP_VerifyFinal function, which allows remote attackers to bypass validation of the certificate chain via a malformed SSL/TLS signature for DSA and ECDSA keys, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2008-5077.

References

20090107 [oCERT-2008-016] Multiple OpenSSL signature verification API misuses mailing-list
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-016.html
ADV-2009-0046 vdb-entry