Issued:

2014-08-20

Updated:

2014-08-25

RHSA-2014:1082 - Important: thermostat1-httpcomponents-client security update

Synopsis

Important: thermostat1-httpcomponents-client security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

Updated thermostat1-httpcomponents-client packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Software Collections 1.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

[Updated 25 August 2014] This erratum previously incorrectly listed the CVE-2012-6153 issue as addressed by this update. However, that issue did not affect the thermostat1-httpcomponents-client packages.

Description

Thermostat is a monitoring and instrumentation tool for the OpenJDK HotSpot Java Virtual Machine (JVM) with support for monitoring multiple JVM instances.

The httpcomponents-client package provides an HTTP agent implementation that is used by Thermostat to visualize collected data in an HTTP-aware client application.

It was found that the fix for CVE-2012-6153 was incomplete: the code added to check that the server hostname matches the domain name in a subject's Common Name (CN) field in X.509 certificates was flawed. 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)

For additional information on this flaw, refer to the Knowledgebase article in the References section.

All thermostat1-httpcomponents-client users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• thermostat1-httpcomponents-client-4.2.5-3.4.el6.1.src.rpm
• thermostat1-httpcomponents-client-javadoc-4.2.5-3.4.el6.1.noarch.rpm
• thermostat1-httpcomponents-client-4.2.5-3.4.el6.1.noarch.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1129074

CVEs

• CVE-2014-3577

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.