Candidate: CVE-2014-3596 PublicDate: 2014-08-27 00:55:00 UTC References: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3596 https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12662672/CVE-2014-3596.patch Description: The getCN function in Apache Axis 1.4 and earlier 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 certificate with a subject that specifies a common name in a field that is not the CN field. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-5784. Ubuntu-Description: Notes: jdstrand> fix for CVE-2012-5784 not applied to 12.04 LTS Bugs: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=692650 Priority: low Discovered-by: Assigned-to: CVSS: Patches_axis: upstream_axis: released (1.4-16.2) lucid_axis: ignored (reached end-of-life) precise_axis: not-affected trusty_axis: not-affected (1.4-20ubuntu3) trusty/esm_axis: DNE (trusty was not-affected [1.4-20ubuntu3]) devel_axis: not-affected