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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-2405-1 httpcomponents-client -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

10 Oct 2020

Affected Packages:

httpcomponents-client

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2020-13956.

More information:

Oleg Kalnichevski discovered that httpcomponents-client, a Java library for building HTTP-aware applications, can misinterpret a malformed authority component in request URIs passed to the library as java.net.URI object and pick the wrong target host for request execution.

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 4.5.2-2+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your httpcomponents-client packages.

For the detailed security status of httpcomponents-client please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/httpcomponents-client

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS