Debian Security Advisory 1852-1 - It was discovered that fetchmail, a full-featured remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility, is vulnerable to the "Null Prefix Attacks Against SSL/TLS Certificates" recently published at the Blackhat conference. This allows an attacker to perform undetected man-in-the-middle attacks via a crafted ITU-T X.509 certificate with an injected null byte in the subjectAltName or Common Name fields.
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