The client in Lenovo System Update before 3.14 does not properly validate the certificate when establishing an SSL connection, which allows remote attackers to install arbitrary packages via an SSL certificate whose X.509 headers match a public certificate used by IBM.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2008-07-21T17:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T09:28:42.034Z

Reserved: 2008-07-21T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2008-3249

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-07-21T17:41:00.000

Modified: 2017-08-08T01:31:42.747

Link: CVE-2008-3249

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