Red Hat Security Advisory 2014-1833-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2014-1833-01 – Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Platform is a platform for Java applications, which integrates the JBoss Web Server with JBoss Hibernate and JBoss Seam. It was discovered that the HttpClient incorrectly extracted host name from an X.509 certificate subject’s Common Name field. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to spoof an SSL server using a specially crafted X.509 certificate. The CVE-2012-6153 issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of Red Hat Product Security.

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