QID 671131

Date Published: 2021-11-29

QID 671131: EulerOS Security Update for httpcomponents-client (EulerOS-SA-2019-2518)

Httpclient is a http/1.1 compliant http agent implementation based on httpcomponents httpcore.
It also provides reusable components for client-side authentication, http state management, and http connection management.
Httpcomponents client is a successor of and replacement for commons httpclient 3.x.
Users of commons httpclient are strongly encouraged to upgrade.
Security fix(es): http/conn/ssl/sslconnectionsocketfactory.java in apache httpcomponents httpclient before 4.3.6 ignores the http.socket.timeout configuration setting during an ssl handshake, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (https call hang) via unspecified vectors.(cve-2015-5262)

Note: The preceding description block is extracted directly from the security advisory. Using automation, we have attempted to clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

An arbitrary attacker may exploit this vulnerability to compromise the system.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Medium - 4.2 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 4.3 severity.
    • Solution
    The Vendor has released a security update to fix the vulnerability. For more information please visit EulerOS-SA-2019-2518 for updates and patch information
    Vendor References

    CVEs related to QID 671131

    CVE-2015-5262 |
    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    EulerOS-SA-2019-2518 EulerOS V2.0SP2 URL Logo developer.huaweicloud.com/ict/en/site-euleros/euleros/security-advisories/EulerOS-SA-2019-2518
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