CVE-2009-0047: Gale

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Gale 0.99 and earlier does not properly check the return value from the OpenSSL EVP_VerifyFinal function, which allows remote attackers to bypass validation of the certificate chain via a malformed SSL/TLS signature for DSA and ECDSA keys, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2008-5077.

Affected products

• Gale Gale: up to and including 0.99; version 0.15 only; version 0.15b only; version 0.15c only; version 0.16 only; version 0.16a only; …

Published 2009-01-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.