jakarta-commons-httpclient: missing connection hostname check against X.509 certificate name

It was found that Apache Commons HttpClient 3.x, as used in Amazon Flexible Payments Service FPS merchant Java SDK and other products, does 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...

CentOS Update for ruby CESA-2013:1090 centos6

Check for the Version of ruby OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for ruby CESA-2013:1090 centos6 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

CentOS Update for ruby CESA-2013:1090 centos5

Check for the Version of ruby OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for ruby CESA-2013:1090 centos5 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

SuSE 10 Security Update : ruby (ZYPP Patch Number 8639)

Ruby failed to check hostnames correctly when setting up a SSL client connection. CVE-2013-4073 was assigned to this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if...

ruby: hostname check bypassing vulnerability in SSL client

The OpenSSL::SSL.verifycertificateidentity function in lib/openssl/ssl.rb in Ruby 1.8 before 1.8.7-p374, 1.9 before 1.9.3-p448, and 2.0 before 2.0.0-p247 does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the Subject Alternative Name field of an X.509 certificate, which allows...

Scientific Linux Security Update : ruby on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/srpm/x86_64 (20130717)

A flaw was found in Ruby's SSL client's hostname identity check when handling certificates that contain hostnames with NULL bytes. An attacker could potentially exploit this flaw to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks to spoof SSL servers. Note that to exploit this issue, an attacker would need to...

ruby security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2013:1090 Updated ruby packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: ruby security update

Updated ruby packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...

ruby: hostname check bypassing vulnerability in SSL client

The OpenSSL::SSL.verifycertificateidentity function in lib/openssl/ssl.rb in Ruby 1.8 before 1.8.7-p374, 1.9 before 1.9.3-p448, and 2.0 before 2.0.0-p247 does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the Subject Alternative Name field of an X.509 certificate, which allows...

FreeBSD : ruby -- Hostname check bypassing vulnerability in SSL client (ebd877b9-7ef4-4375-b1fd-c67780581898)

Ruby Developers report : Ruby's SSL client implements hostname identity check but it does not properly handle hostnames in the certificate that contain null bytes. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from the...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 : ruby1.8, ruby1.9.1 vulnerability (USN-1902-1)

William B.J. Snow Orvis discovered that Ruby incorrectly verified the hostname in SSL certificates. An attacker could trick Ruby into trusting a rogue server certificate, which was signed by a trusted certificate authority, to perform a man-in-the-middle attack. Note that Tenable Network Security...

USN-1902-1: Ruby vulnerability

William B.J. Snow Orvis discovered that Ruby incorrectly verified the hostname in SSL certificates. An attacker could trick Ruby into trusting a rogue server certificate, which was signed by a trusted certificate authority, to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack...

MGASA-2013-0200 Updated axis package fixes security vulnerability

Apache Axis 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-2012-578...

MGASA-2013-0199 Updated jakarta-commons-httpclient package fixes security vulnerability

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...

Updated jakarta-commons-httpclient package fixes security vulnerability

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...

jakarta-commons-httpclient: missing connection hostname check against X.509 certificate name

It was found that Apache Commons HttpClient 3.x, as used in Amazon Flexible Payments Service FPS merchant Java SDK and other products, does 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...

ruby -- Hostname check bypassing vulnerability in SSL client

Ruby Developers report: Ruby's SSL client implements hostname identity check but it does not properly handle hostnames in the certificate that contain null bytes...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: python-backports-ssl_match_hostname-3.2-0.3.a3.fc17

The Secure Sockets layer is only actually secure if you check the hostname in the certificate returned by the server to which you are connecting, and ver ify that it matches to hostname that you are trying to reach. But the matching logic, defined in RFC2818, can be a bit tricky to implemen t on...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: python-backports-ssl_match_hostname-3.2-0.3.a3.fc19

The Secure Sockets layer is only actually secure if you check the hostname in the certificate returned by the server to which you are connecting, and ver ify that it matches to hostname that you are trying to reach. But the matching logic, defined in RFC2818, can be a bit tricky to implemen t on...

PT-2013-1940

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cisco WebEx version 4.1 on iOS Description The issue allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate because it does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common...