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Ruby Cryptographic Issues Vulnerability - CVE-2013-4073 - Vulnerability Database
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Ruby Cryptographic Issues Vulnerability - CVE-2013-4073

Medium
Reference: CVE-2013-4073
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4073
Title: Ruby Cryptographic Issues Vulnerability
Overview:

The OpenSSL::SSL.verify_certificate_identity function in lib/openssl/ssl.rb in Ruby 1.8 before 1.8.7-p374 1.9 before 1.9.3-p448 and 2.0 before 2.0.0-p247 does not properly handle a 39039 character in a domain name in the Subject Alternative Name field of an X.509 certificate which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority a related issue to CVE-2009-2408.