CVE-2009-3490

NameCVE-2009-3490
DescriptionGNU Wget before 1.12 does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the Common Name field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle remote attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, a related issue to CVE-2009-2408.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-1904-1
Debian Bugs549293

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
wget (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)1.16-1+deb8u7fixed
stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch1.18-5+deb9u3fixed
buster1.20.1-1.1fixed
bullseye1.21-1+deb11u1fixed
bookworm1.21.3-1fixed
sid, trixie1.24.5-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
wgetsourceetch1.10.2-2+etch1DSA-1904-1
wgetsourcelenny1.11.4-2+lenny1DSA-1904-1
wgetsource(unstable)1.12-1medium549293
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