| Descripción: | Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'httpd'
package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.
Vulnerability Insight:
The httpd packages contain the Apache HTTP Server (httpd), which is the
namesake project of The Apache Software Foundation.
Input sanitization flaws were found in the mod_negotiation module. A remote
attacker able to upload or create files with arbitrary names in a directory
that has the MultiViews options enabled, could use these flaws to conduct
cross-site scripting and HTTP response splitting attacks against users
visiting the site. (CVE-2008-0455, CVE-2008-0456, CVE-2012-2687)
Bug fixes:
* Previously, no check was made to see if the
/etc/pki/tls/private/localhost.key file was a valid key prior to running
the '%post' script for the 'mod_ssl' package. Consequently, when
/etc/pki/tls/certs/localhost.crt did not exist and 'localhost.key' was
present but invalid, upgrading the Apache HTTP Server daemon (httpd) with
mod_ssl failed. The '%post' script has been fixed to test for an existing
SSL key. As a result, upgrading httpd with mod_ssl now proceeds as
expected. (BZ#752618)
* The 'mod_ssl' module did not support operation under FIPS mode.
Consequently, when operating Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with FIPS mode
enabled, httpd failed to start. An upstream patch has been applied to
disable non-FIPS functionality if operating under FIPS mode and httpd now
starts as expected. (BZ#773473)
* Prior to this update, httpd exit status codes were not Linux Standard
Base (LSB) compliant. When the command 'service httpd reload' was run and
httpd failed, the exit status code returned was '0' and not in the range 1
to 6 as expected. A patch has been applied to the init script and httpd now
returns '1' as an exit status code. (BZ#783242)
* Chunked Transfer Coding is described in RFC 2616. Previously, the
Apache server did not correctly handle a chunked encoded POST request with
a 'chunk-size' or 'chunk-extension' value of 32 bytes or more.
Consequently, when such a POST request was made the server did not respond.
An upstream patch has been applied and the problem no longer occurs.
(BZ#840845)
* Due to a regression, when mod_cache received a non-cacheable 304
response, the headers were served incorrectly. Consequently, compressed
data could be returned to the client without the cached headers to indicate
the data was compressed. An upstream patch has been applied to merge
response and cached headers before data from the cache is served to the
client. As a result, cached data is now correctly interpreted by the
client. (BZ ...
Description truncated, please see the referenced URL(s) for more information.
Affected Software/OS:
httpd on CentOS 5
Solution:
Please install the updated packages.
CVSS Score:
4.3
CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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