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TITLE:
mpop SSL Certificate NULL Character Processing Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA37312

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37312/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in mpop, 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 characters embedded in certain
certificate fields and can be exploited to spoof certificates for
legitimate domains.

This is related to vulnerability #2 in:
SA36093

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.0.19.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.0.19.

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

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://mpop.sourceforge.net/news.html

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

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