CVE-2009-0265
HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: January 26, 2009 at 03:05 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:04 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorBIND
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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
Description
Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) BIND 9.6.0 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, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2008-5077 and CVE-2009-0025.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (6)
x_refsource_MISCMailing List
Source: [email protected]
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.protocols.dns.bind/browse_thread/thread/49ef622c8329fd33Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIABroken LinkVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/33559Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SLACKWAREMailing ListPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.540362Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVABroken Link
Source: [email protected]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:037VDB Entryx_refsource_VUPENBroken Link
Source: [email protected]
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0043CVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- NONE
- Availability
- NONE
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-252CWE-295
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