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Debian DLA-222-1 : commons-httpclient security update
medium Nessus Plugin ID 83545
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Synopsis
The remote Debian host is missing a security update.Description
CVE-2012-5783 and CVE-2012-6153 Apache Commons HttpClient 3.1 did not 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 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate. Thanks to Alberto Fernandez Martinez for the patch.CVE-2014-3577 It was found that the fix for CVE-2012-6153 was incomplete: the code added to check that the server hostname matches the domain name in a subject's Common Name (CN) field in X.509 certificates was flawed. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to spoof an SSL server using a specially crafted X.509 certificate. The fix for CVE-2012-6153 was intended to address the incomplete patch for CVE-2012-5783. The issue is now completely resolved by applying this patch and the one for the previous CVEs
This upload was prepared by Markus Koschany.
NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Upgrade the affected packages.See Also
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/05/msg00008.html
https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/commons-httpclient
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 83545
File Name: debian_DLA-222.nasl
Version: 2.8
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Debian Local Security Checks
Published: 5/20/2015
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.6
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.8
Temporal Score: 4.3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcommons-httpclient-java, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcommons-httpclient-java-doc, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 5/19/2015