| Descripción: | Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'httpd'
package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.
Vulnerability Insight:
The httpd packages provide the Apache HTTP
Server, a powerful, efficient, and extensible web server.
Security Fix(es):
* It was discovered that httpd used the value of the Proxy header from HTTP
requests to initialize the HTTP_PROXY environment variable for CGI scripts,
which in turn was incorrectly used by certain HTTP client implementations
to configure the proxy for outgoing HTTP requests. A remote attacker could
possibly use this flaw to redirect HTTP requests performed by a CGI script
to an attacker-controlled proxy via a malicious HTTP request.
(CVE-2016-5387)
Note: After this update, httpd will no longer pass the value of the Proxy
request header to scripts via the HTTP_PROXY environment variable.
Red Hat would like to thank Scott Geary (VendHQ) for reporting this issue.
Bug Fix(es):
* In a caching proxy configuration, the mod_cache module would treat
content as stale if the Expires header changed when refreshing a cached
response. As a consequence, an origin server returning content without a
fixed Expires header would not be treated as cacheable. The mod_cache
module has been fixed to ignore changes in the Expires header when
refreshing content. As a result, such content is now cacheable, improving
performance and reducing load at the origin server. (BZ#1347648)
* The HTTP status code 451 'Unavailable For Legal Reasons' was not usable
in the httpd configuration. As a consequence, modules such as mod_rewrite
could not be configured to return a 451 error if required for legal
purposes. The 451 status code has been added to the list of available error
codes, and modules can now be configured to return a 451 error if required.
(BZ#1353269)
Affected Software/OS:
httpd on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
Solution:
Please Install the Updated Packages.
CVSS Score:
6.8
CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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