On Wed, 2015-04-01 at 12:47 +0200, Markus Koschany wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am currently trying to verify for the Debian distribution that
> versions of httpclient are or are not affected by the following security
> vulnerabilities:
> 
> CVE-2014-3577
> https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3577
> 
> CVE-2012-6153
> https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-6153
> 
> I am aware that HttpClient <= 3.1 is EOL now but there are still
> packages in the archive that depend on exactly this version in Debian.
> We intend to apply a patch from RedHat / Fedora [1] that appears to
> address CVE-2014-3577. However we would like to ensure that it really
> resolves the issue once and for all.
> 
> How can I test that this patch actually addresses the vulnerability? Are
> there any test cases available?
> 

All execution paths that were found as vulnerable now have corresponding
test cases here:

http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-4.4.x/httpclient/xref-test/org/apache/http/conn/ssl/TestDefaultHostnameVerifier.html

Oleg



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