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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-9617
2014-08-21 07:54:42
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Name : httpcomponents-client
Product : Fedora 20
Version : 4.2.5
Release : 4.fc20
URL :
http://hc.apache.org/
Summary : HTTP agent implementation based on httpcomponents HttpCore
Description :
HttpClient is a HTTP/1.1 compliant HTTP agent implementation based on
httpcomponents HttpCore. It also provides reusable components for
client-side authentication, HTTP state management, and HTTP connection
management. HttpComponents Client is a successor of and replacement
for Commons HttpClient 3.x. Users of Commons HttpClient are strongly
encouraged to upgrade.
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Update Information:
Security fix for CVE-2014-3577
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ChangeLog:
* Mon Aug 18 2014 Michal Srb <msrb(a)redhat.com> - 4.2.5-4
- Fix MITM security vulnerability
- Resolves: CVE-2014-3577
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1129074 - CVE-2014-3577 Apache HttpComponents client: SSL hostname
verification bypass, incomplete CVE-2012-6153 fix
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1129074
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update httpcomponents-client' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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