Package: axis Severity: grave Tags: security Hi, the following vulnerability was published for axis.
CVE-2014-3596[0]: | 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. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3596 https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-3596 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS-2905 Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. As is turns out, the fix for CVE-2012-5784 was incomplete and there's an updated patch available provided by RedHat: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12662672/CVE-2014-3596.patch Please update replace debian/patches/06-fix-CVE-2012-5784.patch with this one. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Discover the Debian Administrator's Handbook: → http://debian-handbook.info/get/ __ This is the maintainer address of Debian's Java team <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers>. Please use debian-j...@lists.debian.org for discussions and questions.
