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TITLE:
wget SSL Certificate NULL Character Processing Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA36540

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/36540/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in wget, which can be exploited by
malicious people to conduct spoofing attacks.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing SSL
certificates containing NULL ('\0') characters embedded in certain
certificate fields and can be exploited to spoof certificates for
legitimate domains.

This is related to vulnerability #2 in:
SA36093

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the development repository:
http://hg.addictivecode.org/wget/mainline/rev/f2d2ca32fd1b
http://hg.addictivecode.org/wget/mainline/rev/2d8c76a23e7d

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Independently discovered by Dan Kaminsky and Moxie Marlinspike.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://addictivecode.org/pipermail/wget-notify/2009-August/001808.html
http://hg.addictivecode.org/wget/mainline/rev/1eab157d3be7

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA36093:
http://secunia.com/advisories/36093/

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