libsecurity in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 and 10.6.4 does not properly perform comparisons to domain-name strings in X.509 certificates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via a certificate associated with a similar domain name, as demonstrated by use of a www.example.con certificate to spoof www.example.com.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2010-1822 libsecurity in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 and 10.6.4 does not properly perform comparisons to domain-name strings in X.509 certificates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via a certificate associated with a similar domain name, as demonstrated by use of a www.example.con certificate to spoof www.example.com.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apple

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-16T18:39:46.515Z

Reserved: 2010-05-06T00:00:00Z

Link: CVE-2010-1802

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2010-08-25T20:00:16.797

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2010-1802

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