Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.55803
Category:	Slackware Local Security Checks
Title:	Slackware: Security Advisory (SSA:2005-310-04)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the 'apache' package(s) announced via the SSA:2005-310-04 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the 'apache' package(s) announced via the SSA:2005-310-04 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: New apache packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix potential security issues: * If a request contains both Transfer-Encoding and Content-Length headers, remove the Content-Length, mitigating some HTTP Request Splitting/Spoofing attacks. * Added TraceEnable [onoffextended] per-server directive to alter the behavior of the TRACE method. It's hard to say how much real-world impact these have, as there's no more information about that in the announcement. The original Apache announcement can be read here: [link moved to references] Note that if you use mod_ssl, you will also need a new mod_ssl package. These have been provided for the same releases of Slackware. Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/apache-1.3.34-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to apache-1.3.34. Fixes this minor security bug: 'If a request contains both Transfer-Encoding and Content-Length headers, remove the Content-Length, mitigating some HTTP Request Splitting/Spoofing attacks.' (* Security fix *) patches/packages/mod_ssl-2.8.25_1.3.34-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to mod_ssl-2.8.25-1.3.34. +--------------------------+ Affected Software/OS: 'apache' package(s) on Slackware 8.1, Slackware 9.0, Slackware 9.1, Slackware 10.0, Slackware 10.1, Slackware 10.2, Slackware current. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 5.0 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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