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CentOS Update for apr CESA-2011:0507 centos5 x86_64

🗓️ 30 Jul 2012 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2012 Greenbone AGType 
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The remote host is missing an update for the 'apr' package(s) announced via the referenced advisory. The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is a portability library used by the Apache HTTP Server and other projects. It provides a free library of C data structures and routines. It was discovered that the apr_fnmatch() function used an unconstrained recursion when processing patterns with the '*' wildcard. An attacker could use this flaw to cause an application using this function, which also accepted untrusted input as a pattern for matching (such as an httpd server using the mod_autoindex module), to exhaust all stack memory or use an excessive amount of CPU time when performing matching. (CVE-2011-0419) Red Hat would like to thank Maksymilian Arciemowicz for reporting this issue. All apr users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. Applications using the apr library, such as httpd, must be restarted for this update to take effect

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

if(description)
{
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2011-May/017556.html");
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.881329");
  script_version("2026-04-24T06:23:04+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2026-04-24 06:23:04 +0000 (Fri, 24 Apr 2026)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2012-07-30 17:25:09 +0530 (Mon, 30 Jul 2012)");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2011-0419");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.3");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_xref(name:"CESA", value:"2011:0507");
  script_name("CentOS Update for apr CESA-2011:0507 centos5 x86_64");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the 'apr'
  package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2012 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("CentOS Local Security Checks");
  script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/centos", "ssh/login/rpms", re:"ssh/login/release=CentOS5");
  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"apr on CentOS 5");
  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please install the updated packages.");
  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is a portability library used by the
  Apache HTTP Server and other projects. It provides a free library of C data
  structures and routines.

  It was discovered that the apr_fnmatch() function used an unconstrained
  recursion when processing patterns with the '*' wildcard. An attacker could
  use this flaw to cause an application using this function, which also
  accepted untrusted input as a pattern for matching (such as an httpd server
  using the mod_autoindex module), to exhaust all stack memory or use an
  excessive amount of CPU time when performing matching. (CVE-2011-0419)

  Red Hat would like to thank Maksymilian Arciemowicz for reporting this
  issue.

  All apr users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a
  backported patch to correct this issue. Applications using the apr library,
  such as httpd, must be restarted for this update to take effect.");
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
  exit(0);
}

include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");

release = rpm_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
  exit(0);

res = "";

if(release == "CentOS5")
{

  if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"apr", rpm:"apr~1.2.7~11.el5_6.4", rls:"CentOS5")) != NULL)
  {
    security_message(data:res);
    exit(0);
  }

  if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"apr-devel", rpm:"apr-devel~1.2.7~11.el5_6.4", rls:"CentOS5")) != NULL)
  {
    security_message(data:res);
    exit(0);
  }

  if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"apr-docs", rpm:"apr-docs~1.2.7~11.el5_6.4", rls:"CentOS5")) != NULL)
  {
    security_message(data:res);
    exit(0);
  }

  if (__pkg_match) exit(99);
  exit(0);
}

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