Mozilla 1.9 M8 and earlier, Mozilla Firefox 2 before 2.0.0.15, SeaMonkey 1.1.5 and other versions before 1.1.10, Netscape 9.0, and other Mozilla-based web browsers, when a user accepts an SSL server certificate on the basis of the CN domain name in the DN field, regard the certificate as also accepted for all domain names in subjectAltName:dNSName fields, which makes it easier for remote attackers to trick a user into accepting an invalid certificate for a spoofed web site.
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2008-07-08T23:00:00
Updated: 2018-10-11T19:57:01
Reserved: 2008-06-20T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2008-2809
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NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2008-07-08T23:41:00.000
Modified: 2018-10-11T20:44:20.997
Link: CVE-2008-2809
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CWE