Fedora Update for async-http-client FEDORA-2015-6891

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async-http-client: SSL/TLS certificate verification is disabled under certain conditions

It was found that async-http-client would disable SSL/TLS certificate verification under certain conditions, for example if HTTPS communication also used client certificates. A man-in-the-middle MITM attacker could use this flaw to spoof a valid certificate...

async-http-client: missing hostname verification for SSL certificates

It was found that async-http-client 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...

async-http-client: SSL/TLS certificate verification is disabled under certain conditions

It was found that async-http-client would disable SSL/TLS certificate verification under certain conditions, for example if HTTPS communication also used client certificates. A man-in-the-middle MITM attacker could use this flaw to spoof a valid certificate...