RHSA-2014:1123 - Security Advisory

Topic

An updated devtoolset-2-axis package that fixes one security issue is now
available for Red Hat Developer Toolset 2.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate 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.

Description

Apache Axis is an implementation of SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol).
It can be used to build both web service clients and servers.

Apache Axis did not verify that the server host name matched the domain
name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field in X.509
certificates. This could allow a man-in-the-middle attacker to spoof an SSL
server if they had a certificate that was valid for any domain name.
(CVE-2012-5784)

All devtoolset-2-axis users are advised to upgrade to this updated package,
which contains 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

• Red Hat Developer Toolset (for RHEL Server) 2 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Developer Toolset (for RHEL Server) 2 for RHEL 6 i386
• Red Hat Developer Toolset (for RHEL Workstation) 2 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Developer Toolset (for RHEL Workstation) 2 for RHEL 6 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 873252 - CVE-2012-5784 axis: missing connection hostname check against X.509 certificate name

CVEs

• CVE-2012-5784

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate