[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: axis-1.4-19.fc18
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-1222
2013-01-23 00:31:56
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Name : axis
Product : Fedora 18
Version : 1.4
Release : 19.fc18
URL : http://ws.apache.org/axis/
Summary : SOAP implementation in Java
Description :
Apache AXIS is an implementation of the SOAP ("Simple Object Access Protocol")
submission to W3C.
From the draft W3C specification:
SOAP is a lightweight protocol for exchange of information in a decentralized,
distributed environment. It is an XML based protocol that consists of three
parts: an envelope that defines a framework for describing what is in a message
and how to process it, a set of encoding rules for expressing instances of
application-defined datatypes, and a convention for representing remote
procedure calls and responses.
This project is a follow-on to the Apache SOAP project.
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Update Information:
This update fixes a security vulnerability that caused axis 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-2012-5784).
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ChangeLog:
* Mon Jan 21 2013 Mikolaj Izdebski <mizdebsk at redhat.com> - 0:1.4-19
- Add missing connection hostname check against X.509 certificate name
- Resolves: CVE-2012-5784
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #873252 - CVE-2012-5784 axis: Does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's CN or subjectAltName field of the x.509 certificate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873252
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
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