CWE
310
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2009-2510

First published: Wed Oct 14 2009(Updated: )

The CryptoAPI component in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2, Windows Server 2008 Gold, SP2, and R2, and Windows 7, as used by Internet Explorer and other applications, does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, aka "Null Truncation in X.509 Common Name Vulnerability," a related issue to CVE-2009-2408.

Credit: secure@microsoft.com secure@microsoft.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Microsoft Windows Vista=sp2
Microsoft Windows 2003 Server=sp2
Microsoft Windows XP=sp2
Microsoft Windows Server 2008=sp2
Microsoft Windows Server 2008=r2
Microsoft Windows XP=sp2
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows 2000=sp4
Microsoft Windows Vista=sp1
Microsoft Windows 7
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Windows Server 2008=sp2
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Windows XP=sp3
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows Vista=sp1
Microsoft Windows Server 2008=r2
Microsoft Windows Vista=sp2
Microsoft Windows 2003 Server=sp2
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Windows 2003 Server=sp2
Microsoft Windows Server 2008=sp2

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