Mozilla Firefox RSA Signatures Can Be Forged
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1017182
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id?1017182
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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-5462
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Nov 8 2006
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Impact: Modification of user information
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Fix Available: Yes
Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Advisory: Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory
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Version(s): 1.5.0.7
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Description: A vulnerability was reported in Mozilla Firefox. A remote user may be able to forge certain digital signatures.
If an RSA key with exponent 3 is used, a remote user may be able to forge a PKCS #1 v1.5 signature for that key.
Firefox 1.5.0.7
was incompletely patched against this vulnerability and is vulnerable to a variant of this attack.
Ulrich Kuehn reported this
vulnerability.
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Impact: A remote user may be able to forge signatures (and certificates).
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Solution: The vendor has issued a fixed version (1.5.0.8).
The Mozilla advisory is available at:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-66.html
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Vendor URL: www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-66.html (Links to External Site)
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Cause: Access control error
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Underlying OS: Linux (Any), UNIX (Any), Windows (Any)
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Message History:
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Source Message Contents
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Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 20:44:57 -0500
Subject: Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey vulnerabilities
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http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-66.html
CVE-2006-5462
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