Red Hat Security Advisory 2014-1146-01 – HttpClient is an HTTP/1.1 compliant HTTP agent implementation based on httpcomponents HttpCore. 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.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2014-1163-01 – Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 is a platform for Java applications based on JBoss Application Server 7. It was found that the fix for CVE-2012-5783 was incomplete: the code added to check that the server host name matches the domain name in a subject’s Common Name field in X.509 certificates was flawed. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to spoof an SSL server using a specially crafted X.509 certificate. 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.

Ubuntu Security Notice 2340-1 – Tavis Ormandy discovered that the formail tool incorrectly handled certain malformed mail headers. An attacker could use this flaw to cause formail to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2014-1162-01 – Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 is a platform for Java applications based on JBoss Application Server 7. It was found that the fix for CVE-2012-5783 was incomplete: the code added to check that the server host name matches the domain name in a subject’s Common Name field in X.509 certificates was flawed. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to spoof an SSL server using a specially crafted X.509 certificate. 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.

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-174 – The mod_headers module in the Apache HTTP Server 2.2.22 allows remote attackers to bypass RequestHeader unset directives by placing a header in the trailer portion of data sent with chunked transfer coding. NOTE: the vendor states this is not a security issue in httpd as such. The updated packages have been upgraded to the latest 2.2.29 version which is not vulnerable to this issue.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2014-1161-01 – Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager is a visual tool for centrally managing collections of virtual servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Microsoft Windows. This package also includes the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager API, a set of scriptable commands that give administrators the ability to perform queries and operations on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2014-1143-01 – The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s system call auditing implementation. On a system with existing audit rules defined, a local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to leak kernel memory to user space or, potentially, crash the system.

Original release date: September 04, 2014

WordPress 3.9.2 has been released to address multiple vulnerabilities, one of which could allow a possible denial of service issue in PHP’s XML processing.  WordPress 3.7.3 or 3.8.3 users will be updated to 3.7.4 or 3.8.4. Users operating older, unsupported versions of WordPress are encouraged to upgrade to 3.9.2.

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