PublicDateAtUSN: 2014-08-21
Candidate: CVE-2014-3577
PublicDate: 2014-08-21 14:55:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3577
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2769-1
Description:
 org.apache.http.conn.ssl.AbstractVerifier in Apache HttpComponents
 HttpClient before 4.3.5 and HttpAsyncClient before 4.0.2 does not properly
 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 a "CN=" string
 in a field in the distinguished name (DN) of a certificate, as demonstrated
 by the "foo,CN=www.apache.org" string in the O field.
Ubuntu-Description:
 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 man in the middle attack to view sensitive information
 or alter encrypted communications.
Notes:
Bugs:
 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1129074
 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=758086
Priority: medium
Discovered-by: Subodh Iyengar and Will Shackleton
Assigned-to: mdeslaur
CVSS: 

Patches_httpcomponents-client:
 upstream: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1614064
upstream_httpcomponents-client: released (4.3.5-1)
lucid_httpcomponents-client: DNE
precise_httpcomponents-client: ignored (reached end-of-life)
precise/esm_httpcomponents-client: DNE (precise was needed)
trusty_httpcomponents-client: released (4.3.3-1ubuntu0.1)
trusty/esm_httpcomponents-client: released (4.3.3-1ubuntu0.1)

utopic_httpcomponents-client: ignored (reached end-of-life)
vivid_httpcomponents-client: not-affected (4.3.5-2)
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_httpcomponents-client: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_httpcomponents-client: DNE
wily_httpcomponents-client: not-affected (4.4.1-1)
xenial_httpcomponents-client: not-affected (4.4.1-1)
yakkety_httpcomponents-client: not-affected (4.4.1-1)
zesty_httpcomponents-client: not-affected (4.4.1-1)
artful_httpcomponents-client: not-affected (4.4.1-1)
bionic_httpcomponents-client: not-affected (4.4.1-1)
devel_httpcomponents-client: not-affected (4.4.1-1)

Patches_commons-httpclient:
upstream_commons-httpclient: released (3.1-11)
precise_commons-httpclient: released (3.1-10ubuntu0.1)
precise/esm_commons-httpclient: DNE (precise was released [3.1-10ubuntu0.1])
trusty_commons-httpclient: released (3.1-10.2ubuntu0.14.04.1)
trusty/esm_commons-httpclient: released (3.1-10.2ubuntu0.14.04.1)
vivid_commons-httpclient: released (3.1-10.2ubuntu0.15.04.1)
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_commons-httpclient: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_commons-httpclient: DNE
wily_commons-httpclient: not-affected (3.1-11)
xenial_commons-httpclient: not-affected (3.1-11)
yakkety_commons-httpclient: not-affected (3.1-11)
zesty_commons-httpclient: not-affected (3.1-11)
artful_commons-httpclient: not-affected (3.1-11)
bionic_commons-httpclient: not-affected (3.1-11)
devel_commons-httpclient: not-affected (3.1-11)