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Apache Commons HttpClient vulnerabilities

Description

## Releases * Ubuntu 15.04 * Ubuntu 14.04 ESM * Ubuntu 12.04 ## Packages * commons-httpclient \- A Java(TM) library for creating HTTP clients It was discovered that Apache Commons HttpClient did not properly verify the Common Name or subjectAltName fields of X.509 certificates. An attacker could exploit this to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2012-5783) Florian Weimer discovered the fix for CVE-2012-5783 was incomplete for Apache Commons HttpClient. An attacker could exploit this to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2012-6153) Subodh Iyengar and Will Shackleton discovered the fix for CVE-2012-5783 was incomplete for Apache Commons HttpClient. An attacker could exploit this to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications. (CVE-2014-3577) It was discovered that Apache Commons HttpClient did not properly handle read timeouts during HTTPS handshakes. A remote attacker could trigger this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2015-5262)


Affected Package


OS OS Version Package Name Package Version
Ubuntu 15.04 libcommons-httpclient-java 3.1-10.2ubuntu0.15.04.1
Ubuntu 15.04 libcommons-httpclient-java-doc 3.1-10.2ubuntu0.15.04.1
Ubuntu 14.04 libcommons-httpclient-java 3.1-10.2ubuntu0.14.04.1
Ubuntu 14.04 libcommons-httpclient-java-doc 3.1-10.2ubuntu0.14.04.1
Ubuntu 12.04 libcommons-httpclient-java 3.1-10ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu 12.04 libcommons-httpclient-java-doc 3.1-10ubuntu0.1

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