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litmus, neon27 — security advisory
neon before 0.28.6, when OpenSSL or GnuTLS is used, does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, a related issue to CVE-2009-2408.
- Products
- litmus, neon27
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 0.13-1, 0.28.6-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2009-2474
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 23:20 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
neon before 0.28.6, when OpenSSL or GnuTLS is used, does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, a related issue to CVE-2009-2408.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2009-2474
litmus
Fixed versions: 0.13-1
litmus
Fixed versions: 0.13-1
litmus
Fixed versions: 0.13-1
neon27
Fixed versions: 0.28.6-1
neon27
Fixed versions: 0.28.6-1
neon27
Fixed versions: 0.28.6-1
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-23T17:47:40.886701310Z",
"provider": "osv",
"upstream": [
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"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-2474"
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},
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"security_relevant": true,
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},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 418316,
"published_at": "2009-08-21T17:30:00.36+00:00"
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