CVE-2009-0126

Medium

Description

The decrypt_public function in lib/crypt.cpp in the client in Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) 6.2.14 and 6.4.5 does not check the return value from the OpenSSL RSA_public_decrypt function, which allows remote attackers to bypass validation of the certificate chain via a malformed SSL/TLS signature, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2008-5077.

SeverityMedium

CVSS5.0

Exploit probability—

ProductBerkeley Boinc Client

PublishedJan 15, 2009

First seenJan 15, 2009

How to fix

Vendor advisories

redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-February/msg00034.html

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
berkeley boinc_client	6.2.14, 6.4.5	—

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