The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm is not collision resistant, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to conduct spoofing attacks, as demonstrated by attacks on the use of MD5 in the signature algorithm of an X.509 certificate.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-740-1 NSS vulnerability
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References
Link Providers
http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2008/12/30/md5-weaknesses-could-lead-to-certificate-forgery/ cve-icon cve-icon
http://blogs.technet.com/swi/archive/2008/12/30/information-regarding-md5-collisions-problem.aspx cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33826 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34281 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/42181 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4866 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securitytracker.com/id?1024697 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_security_response09186a0080a5d24a.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.doxpara.com/research/md5/md5_someday.pdf cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/836068 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/961509.mspx cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.phreedom.org/research/rogue-ca/ cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499685/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33065 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-740-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/SoftIntCodeSign/ cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/rogue-ca/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://blogs.verisign.com/ssl-blog/2008/12/on_md5_vulnerabilities_and_mit.php cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=648886 cve-icon cve-icon
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05289935 cve-icon cve-icon
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05336888 cve-icon cve-icon
https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSMA-18-058-02 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-2761 cve-icon
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0837.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0838.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03814en_us cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2004-2761 cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-February/msg00096.html cve-icon cve-icon
History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-08T01:36:25.448Z

Reserved: 2009-01-05T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2004-2761

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2009-01-05T20:30:02.140

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2004-2761

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2008-12-30T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2004-2761 - Bugzilla

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