Description: | Description:
The remote host is missing an update to httpd announced via advisory FEDORA-2006-863.
The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful, efficient, and extensible web server.
Update Information:
This update fixes a security issue in the mod_rewrite module.
Mark Dowd of McAfee Avert Labs reported an off-by-one security problem in the LDAP scheme handling of the mod_rewrite module. Where RewriteEngine was enabled, and for certain RewriteRules, this could lead to a pointer being written out of bounds. (CVE-2006-3747)
The ability to exploit this issue is dependent on the stack layout for a particular compiled version of mod_rewrite. The Fedora project has analyzed Fedora Core 4 and 5 binaries and determined that these distributions are vulnerable to this issue. However this flaw does not affect a default installation of Fedora Core users who do not use, or have not enabled, the Rewrite module are not affected by this issue. * Wed Jul 26 2006 Joe Orton 2.2.2-1.2 - add mod_rewrite security fix (CVE-2006-3747) * Wed Jul 19 2006 Joe Orton 2.2.2-1.1 - fix segfault on dummy connection failure at graceful restart (#199429) * Thu May 11 2006 Joe Orton 2.2.2-1.0 - update to 2.2.2 * Thu Apr 6 2006 Joe Orton 2.2.0-5.2 - fix LDAP issues on 64-bit platforms (#188073)
Solution: Apply the appropriate updates.
This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/
This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update package-name' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing Software with yum,' available at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/.
http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2006-863
Risk factor : High
CVSS Score: 7.6
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