RHSA-2014:1320: Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.2.0 security update

First published: Mon Sep 29 2014(Updated: )

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Platform is a platform for Java applications,<br>which integrates the JBoss Web Server with JBoss Hibernate and JBoss Seam.<br>It was found that the fix for CVE-2012-5783 was incomplete: the code added<br>to check that the server host name matches the domain name in a subject's<br>Common Name (CN) field in X.509 certificates was flawed.<br>A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to spoof an SSL server<br>using a specially crafted X.509 certificate. (CVE-2012-6153)<br>It was discovered that the HttpClient incorrectly extracted host name from<br>an X.509 certificate subject's Common Name (CN) field. A man-in-the-middle<br>attacker could use this flaw to spoof an SSL server using a specially<br>crafted X.509 certificate. (CVE-2014-3577)<br>The CVE-2012-6153 issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of Red Hat<br>Product Security.<br>For additional information on these flaws, refer to the Knowledgebase<br>article in the References section.<br>All users of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.2.0 on Red Hat<br>Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6 are advised to upgrade to these updated<br>packages. The JBoss server process must be restarted for the update to take<br>effect.<br>

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