Scientific Linux 5/6 Moderate: jakarta-commons-httpclient Man-In-The-Middle

Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:16:39 -0600
Reply-To: Pat Riehecky 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Pat Riehecky 
Organization: Fermilab
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: jakarta-commons-httpclient on SL5.x,
 SL6.x i386/x86_64
MIME-Version: 1.0

Synopsis: Moderate: jakarta-commons-httpclient security update
Issue Date: 2013-02-19
CVE Numbers: CVE-2012-5783
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The Jakarta Commons HttpClient component did not verify that the server
hostname matched the domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or
subjectAltName field in X.509 certificates. This could allow a man-in-the-
middle attacker to spoof an SSL server if they had a certificate that
was valid for any domain name. (CVE-2012-5783)

Applications using the Jakarta Commons HttpClient component must be
restarted for this update to take effect.
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SL5
 x86_64
 jakarta-commons-httpclient-3.0-7jpp.2.x86_64.rpm
 jakarta-commons-httpclient-debuginfo-3.0-7jpp.2.x86_64.rpm
 jakarta-commons-httpclient-demo-3.0-7jpp.2.x86_64.rpm
 jakarta-commons-httpclient-javadoc-3.0-7jpp.2.x86_64.rpm
 jakarta-commons-httpclient-manual-3.0-7jpp.2.x86_64.rpm
 i386
 jakarta-commons-httpclient-3.0-7jpp.2.i386.rpm
 jakarta-commons-httpclient-debuginfo-3.0-7jpp.2.i386.rpm
 jakarta-commons-httpclient-demo-3.0-7jpp.2.i386.rpm
 jakarta-commons-httpclient-javadoc-3.0-7jpp.2.i386.rpm
 jakarta-commons-httpclient-manual-3.0-7jpp.2.i386.rpm
SL6
 x86_64
 jakarta-commons-httpclient-3.1-0.7.el6_3.x86_64.rpm
 jakarta-commons-httpclient-debuginfo-3.1-0.7.el6_3.x86_64.rpm
 jakarta-commons-httpclient-demo-3.1-0.7.el6_3.x86_64.rpm
 jakarta-commons-httpclient-javadoc-3.1-0.7.el6_3.x86_64.rpm
 jakarta-commons-httpclient-manual-3.1-0.7.el6_3.x86_64.rpm
 i386
 jakarta-commons-httpclient-3.1-0.7.el6_3.i686.rpm
 jakarta-commons-httpclient-debuginfo-3.1-0.7.el6_3.i686.rpm
 jakarta-commons-httpclient-demo-3.1-0.7.el6_3.i686.rpm
 jakarta-commons-httpclient-javadoc-3.1-0.7.el6_3.i686.rpm
 jakarta-commons-httpclient-manual-3.1-0.7.el6_3.i686.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team