Medium: jakarta-commons-httpclient

Issue Overview:

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 any domain name. (CVE-2012-5783)

Affected Packages:

jakarta-commons-httpclient

Issue Correction:
Run yum update jakarta-commons-httpclient to update your system.

New Packages:

noarch:  
    jakarta-commons-httpclient-javadoc-3.1-12.6.amzn1.noarch  
    jakarta-commons-httpclient-3.1-12.6.amzn1.noarch  
    jakarta-commons-httpclient-manual-3.1-12.6.amzn1.noarch  
    jakarta-commons-httpclient-demo-3.1-12.6.amzn1.noarch  
  
src:  
    jakarta-commons-httpclient-3.1-12.6.amzn1.src  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2012-5783

Mitre: CVE-2012-5783