(Sun Issues Fix) Mozilla Seamonkey RSA Signatures Can Be Forged
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1017544 |
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id/1017544
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CVE Reference:
CVE-2006-5462
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Jan 23 2007
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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): 1.0.5
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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.
Seamonkey 1.0.5 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:
Sun has issued a fix.
SPARC Platform
* Solaris 10 with patch 119115-22 or later
x86 Platform
* Solaris 10 with patch 119116-22 or later
A final resolution for Solaris 8 and 9 is pending.
The Sun advisory is available at:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102781-1
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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:
UNIX (Solaris - SunOS)
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Message History:
This archive entry is a follow-up to the message listed below.
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Source Message Contents
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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:01:18 -0500
Subject: RSA Signature Forgery Issues in Mozilla 1.7 for Solaris 8, 9 and 10
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http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102781-1
CVE-2006-4340
CVE-2006-5462
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