| Package | httpcomponents-client |
|---|---|
| Version | 4.3.5-2+deb8u1 |
| Related CVEs | CVE-2020-13956 |
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 8 jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 4.3.5-2+deb8u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your httpcomponents-client packages.
Further information about Extended LTS security advisories can be found in the dedicated section of our website.