Secunia Logo
Netsikker nu! 2008
 
Red Hat update for rhpki-common
Secunia Advisory: SA30929
Release Date: 2008-07-03
Popularity: 2,217 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Red Hat Certificate System 7.x

Subscribe: Instant alerts on relevant vulnerabilities

CVE reference:CVE-2008-1676


Description:
Red Hat has issued an update for rhpki-common. This fixes a security issue, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

The security issue is caused due to an error in the handling of Extensions in certificate signing requests (CSR) where all requested Extensions are added to the issued certificate. This can be exploited to bypass certain security policies, e.g. submit a CSR for a subordinate CA certificate although prohibited in the CA configuration.

Solution:
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.
http://rhn.redhat.com

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.

Original Advisory:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0500.html


Track this Secunia Advisory
Customers of the Secunia Vulnerability Intelligence solutions will automatically receive updates when new information regarding this advisory is released.

Read more about our Vulnerability Intelligence solutions and what they can do for you and your company.

About this Secunia Advisory
Please note: The information that this Secunia Advisory is based on comes from a third party unless stated otherwise.

Secunia collects, validates, and verifies all vulnerability reports issued by security research groups, vendors, and others.
  
Latest Advisories

Send Feedback to Secunia
If you have new information regarding this Secunia advisory or a product in our database, please send it to us using either our web form or email us at vuln@secunia.com.

Ideas, suggestions, and other feedback are most welcome.

Most Popular - 3 Hours

1. Sun Java System Web Proxy Server FTP Subsystem Buffer Overflow // 58 views
2. Apple Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities // 50 views
3. CA ARCserve Backup Multiple Vulnerabilities // 42 views
4. CUPS Multiple Vulnerabilities // 41 views
5. FUJITSU Interstage Products Apache Tomcat Security Bypass // 36 views
6. Red Hat update for cups // 36 views
7. DFF PHP Framework API "DFF_config[dir_include]" File Inclusion Vulnerabilities // 35 views
8. phpJobScheduler "installed_config_file" File Inclusion Vulnerabilities // 31 views
9. REDAXO "REX[INCLUDE_PATH]" File Inclusion Vulnerabilities // 24 views
10. Gentoo Portage Insecure Python Module Search Path Security Issue // 22 views