CVE-2004-0765 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2004-0765 at MITRE

Description

The cert_TestHostName function in Mozilla before 1.7, Firefox before 0.9, and Thunderbird before 0.7, only checks the hostname portion of a certificate when the hostname portion of the URI is not a fully qualified domain name (FQDN), which allows remote attackers to spoof trusted certificates.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 58569 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 62691 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2004:030, published Monday, Sept 6th 15:00:00 MEST 2004
SUSE-SA:2004:032, published Wednesday, Sep 15th 2004 16:00 MEST
SUSE-SA:2004:033, published Wednesday, Sep 17th 2004 12:00 MEST
SUSE-SA:2004:034, published Friday, Sep 17th 2004 14:23 MEST
SUSE-SA:2004:035, published Tuesday, Oct 5th 2004 16:53:01 MEST

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 00:56:55 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:35 2025