On Thu, 2015-11-05 at 13:12 +0100, Aki Yoshida wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a question about CVE-2015-5262 [1] which talks about an issue
> regarding Httpclient before version 4.3.6. The referred jira ticket
> HTTPCLIENT-1478 [2] from there mentions that this issue has been fixed
> in 4.3.4.
> 
> 
> Could someone clarify the situation? Is there indeed an issue with
> 4.3.4 and 4.3.5 which is for security reasons not publicly linked from
> the above CVE or if there is an error in either of the documents?
> 

No, there is not. HTTPCLIENT-1478 affected deprecated code only. It did
not affect productive code to start with. CVE-2015-5262 should have
never been raised in the first place but some people think being
credited as a reporter of CVE entry is cool.

Oleg

> Regards, Aki
> [1] https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-5262
> [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1478
> 
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