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gnutls: certificate expiration not checked by gnutls-cli [GNUTLS-SA-2009-3]

Published Apr 30, 2009

Description

gnutls-cli in GnuTLS before 2.6.6 does not verify the activation and expiration times of X.509 certificates, which allows remote attackers to successfully present a certificate that is (1) not yet valid or (2) no longer valid, related to lack of time checks in the _gnutls_x509_verify_certificate function in lib/x509/verify.c in libgnutls_x509, as used by (a) Exim, (b) OpenLDAP, and (c) libsoup.

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Red Hat statement

The Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having low security impact. The risks associated with fixing this bug are greater than the low severity security risk. We therefore currently have no plans to fix this flaw in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, or 5. For further details, see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-1417

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Apr 30, 2009
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Apr 24, 2009
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Low
Public date Apr 30, 2009