Sorry for the error. You are correct, the Synopsis line should have read:
Synopsis: Important: jakarta-commons-httpclient security update Thank you for the report. Pat On 09/09/2014 10:50 AM, Jake Edge wrote:
This advisory looks different than usual, and in fact looks wrong (the subject is about jakarta-commons-httpclient but the synopsis mentions thunderbird ... is this some new format for advisories? or is this just a mistake that will be corrected soon? thanks! jake On Mon, 8 Sep 2014 19:16:30 +0000 Pat Riehecky wrote:Synopsis: Important: thunderbird security update Advisory ID: SLSA-2014:1166-1 Issue Date: 2014-09-08 CVE Numbers: CVE-2014-3577 -- It was discovered that the HTTPClient incorrectly extracted host name from an X.509 certificate subject's Common Name (CN) field. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to spoof an SSL server using a specially crafted X.509 certificate. (CVE-2014-3577) -- SL5 x86_64 jakarta-commons-httpclient-debuginfo-3.0-7jpp.4.el5_10.x86_64.rpm jakarta-commons-httpclient-demo-3.0-7jpp.4.el5_10.x86_64.rpm jakarta-commons-httpclient-javadoc-3.0-7jpp.4.el5_10.x86_64.rpm jakarta-commons-httpclient-manual-3.0-7jpp.4.el5_10.x86_64.rpm i386 jakarta-commons-httpclient-3.0-7jpp.4.el5_10.i386.rpm jakarta-commons-httpclient-debuginfo-3.0-7jpp.4.el5_10.i386.rpm jakarta-commons-httpclient-demo-3.0-7jpp.4.el5_10.i386.rpm jakarta-commons-httpclient-javadoc-3.0-7jpp.4.el5_10.i386.rpm jakarta-commons-httpclient-manual-3.0-7jpp.4.el5_10.i386.rpm SL6 x86_64 jakarta-commons-httpclient-3.1-0.9.el6_5.x86_64.rpm jakarta-commons-httpclient-debuginfo-3.1-0.9.el6_5.x86_64.rpm jakarta-commons-httpclient-demo-3.1-0.9.el6_5.x86_64.rpm jakarta-commons-httpclient-javadoc-3.1-0.9.el6_5.x86_64.rpm jakarta-commons-httpclient-manual-3.1-0.9.el6_5.x86_64.rpm i386 jakarta-commons-httpclient-3.1-0.9.el6_5.i686.rpm jakarta-commons-httpclient-debuginfo-3.1-0.9.el6_5.i686.rpm jakarta-commons-httpclient-demo-3.1-0.9.el6_5.i686.rpm jakarta-commons-httpclient-javadoc-3.1-0.9.el6_5.i686.rpm jakarta-commons-httpclient-manual-3.1-0.9.el6_5.i686.rpm - Scientific Linux Development Team
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