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Fedora 18 : jakarta-commons-httpclient-3.1-12.fc18 (2013-1203)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 64404

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes a security vulnerability that caused jakarta-commons-httpclient not to verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allowed man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via andaarbitrary valid certificate (CVE-2012-5783).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected jakarta-commons-httpclient package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873317

http://www.nessus.org/u?68b7d5d4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 64404

File Name: fedora_2013-1203.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/4/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:jakarta-commons-httpclient

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 1/23/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-5783

FEDORA: 2013-1203