CVE-2012-5783

Name	CVE-2012-5783
Description	Apache Commons HttpClient 3.x, as used in Amazon Flexible Payments Service (FPS) merchant Java SDK and other products, does not 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 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-222-1
Debian Bugs	692442

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
commons-httpclient (PTS)	buster	3.1-15	fixed
	sid, trixie, bookworm, bullseye	3.1-16	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
commons-httpclient	source	squeeze	3.1-9+deb6u1		DLA-222-1
commons-httpclient	source	(unstable)	3.1-10.1			692442

[wheezy] - commons-httpclient <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[squeeze] - commons-httpclient <no-dsa> (Minor issue)