oss-security - Re: CVE Request -- jakarta-commons-httpclient: Wildcard matching in SSL hostname verifier incorrect (a different issue than CVE-2012-5783)

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Message-ID: <511AEA71.8040008@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:20:49 +1000
From: David Jorm <djorm@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request --  jakarta-commons-httpclient: Wildcard
 matching in SSL hostname verifier incorrect (a different issue than CVE-2012-5783)

On 02/13/2013 10:29 AM, Kurt Seifried wrote:
>> Please use CVE-2012-6127 for this issue.
> Ok I should have looked into this deeper, it looks like it may not be
> a security issue but I'm not 100% certain, so for now I will leave
> this, and if someone can show there is no security impact I'll reject
> it. Sorry for the mixup.

This bug will cause valid certificates to be rejected, but not for invalid certificates to be accepted. Please reject the CVE.

Thanks
David

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