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CVE-2012-5784

Publication date 4 November 2012

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Apache Axis 1.4 and earlier, as used in PayPal Payments Pro, PayPal Mass Pay, PayPal Transactional Information SOAP, the Java Message Service implementation in Apache ActiveMQ, 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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
axis 17.04 zesty
Not affected
16.10 yakkety
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
15.10 wily
Not affected
15.04 vivid
Not affected
14.10 utopic
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
13.10 saucy
Not affected
13.04 raring
Not affected
12.10 quantal Ignored
12.04 LTS precise Ignored
11.10 oneiric Ignored
10.04 LTS lucid Ignored
8.04 LTS hardy Ignored

Notes

mdeslaur

debian 1.4-16.1 has a possible regression. Nothing in the main archive seems to be directly affected by this, and changing it now may introduce failures in certain environments where the CN doesn't match the hostname. Downgrading priority to "low"

jdstrand

if fixing this, also fix CVE-2014-3596