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CVE-2009-0127

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2009-01-15 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

M2Crypto does not properly check the return value from the OpenSSL EVP_VerifyFinal, DSA_verify, ECDSA_verify, DSA_do_verify, and ECDSA_do_verify functions, which might allow remote attackers to bypass validation of the certificate chain via a malformed SSL/TLS signature, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2008-5077. NOTE: a Linux vendor disputes the relevance of this report to the M2Crypto product because "these functions are not used anywhere in m2crypto.

Affected Platforms

Heikkitoivonen M2Crypto

Weakness Type

CWE-287

References