[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: jakarta-commons-httpclient-3.1-12.fc16

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-1289
2013-01-23 00:36:29
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Name        : jakarta-commons-httpclient
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 3.1
Release     : 12.fc16
URL         : http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/
Summary     : Jakarta Commons HTTPClient implements the client side of HTTP standards
Description :
The Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is perhaps the most significant
protocol used on the Internet today. Web services, network-enabled
appliances and the growth of network computing continue to expand the
role of the HTTP protocol beyond user-driven web browsers, and increase
the number of applications that may require HTTP support.
Although the java.net package provides basic support for accessing
resources via HTTP, it doesn't provide the full flexibility or
functionality needed by many applications. The Jakarta Commons HTTP
Client component seeks to fill this void by providing an efficient,
up-to-date, and feature-rich package implementing the client side of the
most recent HTTP standards and recommendations.
Designed for extension while providing robust support for the base HTTP
protocol, the HTTP Client component may be of interest to anyone
building HTTP-aware client applications such as web browsers, web
service clients, or systems that leverage or extend the HTTP protocol
for distributed communication.

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Update Information:

This update fixes a security vulnerability that caused jakarta-commons-httpclient not to 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 allowed man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via andaarbitrary valid certificate (CVE-2012-5783).
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Jan 21 2013 Mikolaj Izdebski <mizdebsk at redhat.com> - 1:3.1-12
- Add missing connection hostname check against X.509 certificate name
- Resolves: CVE-2012-5783
* Thu Nov  1 2012 Mikolaj Izdebski <mizdebsk at redhat.com> - 1:3.1-11
- Add maven POM
* Thu Sep 20 2012 Mikolaj Izdebski <mizdebsk at redhat.com> - 1:3.1-10
- Fix license tag
* Thu Sep 20 2012 Mikolaj Izdebski <mizdebsk at redhat.com> - 1:3.1-9
- Install LICENSE and NOTICE files
- Add missing R: java, jpackage-utils
* Thu Jul 19 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1:3.1-8
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
* Sun Jan 22 2012 Andy Grimm <agrimm at gmail.com> - 1:3.1-7
- Fix character encoding
* Fri Jan 13 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1:3.1-6
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #873317 - CVE-2012-5783 jakarta-commons-httpclient: missing connection hostname check against X.509 certificate name
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873317
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
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