Mozilla Seamonkey Certificate Signatures Can Be Forged
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1016859 |
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id/1016859
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CVE Reference:
CVE-2006-4340
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Sep 15 2006
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Impact:
Modification of user information
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Fix Available: Yes Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Version(s): prior to 1.5.0.7
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Description:
A vulnerability was reported in Mozilla Seamonkey. 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.
The vulnerability resides in the Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) library.
Daniel Bleichenbacher reported the type of attack that is possible against PKCS #1 v1.5 signatures.
Philip Mackenzie and Marius Schilder reported that Mozilla is affected.
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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 (1.0.5).
The Mozilla advisory is available at:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-60.html
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Vendor URL: www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-60.html (Links to External Site)
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Cause:
Authentication error
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Underlying OS: Linux (Any), UNIX (Any), Windows (Any)
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