| Description: | 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 (CN) field. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to spoof an SSL server using a specially crafted X.509 certificate. (CVE-2014-3577)
For additional information on this flaw, refer to the Knowledgebase article in the References section.
All httpcomponents-client users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.
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