httpd, mod_ssl security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:1075

The Apache HTTP Server is a popular and freely-available Web server.

A flaw was found in the handling of compression structures between mod_ssl
and OpenSSL. If too many connections were opened in a short period of time,
all system memory and swap space would be consumed by httpd, negatively
impacting other processes, or causing a system crash. (CVE-2008-1678)

Note: The CVE-2008-1678 issue did not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
prior to 5.3. The problem was introduced via the RHBA-2009:0181 errata in
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3, which upgraded OpenSSL to the newer 0.9.8e
version.

A flaw was found in the handling of the “Options” and “AllowOverride”
directives. In configurations using the “AllowOverride” directive with
certain “Options=” arguments, local users were not restricted from
executing commands from a Server-Side-Include script as intended.
(CVE-2009-1195)

All httpd users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain
backported patches to resolve these issues. Users must restart httpd for
this update to take effect.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2009-May/078115.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2009-May/078116.html

Affected packages:
httpd
httpd-devel
httpd-manual
mod_ssl

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1075