Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: : Updated httpd packages fix Apache security vulnerabilities

Updated httpd packages that fix several minor security issues are now available for Red Hat Linux 8.0 and 9. The Apache HTTP server is a powerful, full-featured, efficient, and freely-available Web server. Ben Laurie found a bug in the optional renegotiation code in modssl included with Apache 2...

Apache Httpd < 1.3.29 : Local configuration regular expression overflow

By using a regular expression with more than 9 captures a buffer overflow can occur in modalias or modrewrite. To exploit this an attacker would need to be able to create a carefully crafted configuration file .htaccess or httpd.conf...

Apache Httpd < 2.0.48 : Local configuration regular expression overflow

By using a regular expression with more than 9 captures a buffer overflow can occur in modalias or modrewrite. To exploit this an attacker would need to be able to create a carefully crafted configuration file .htaccess or httpd.conf...

Apache Httpd < 1.3.28 : RotateLogs DoS

The rotatelogs support program on Win32 and OS/2 would quit logging and exit if it received special control characters such as 0x1A...

Apache Httpd < 2.0.47 : Remote DoS via IPv6 ftp proxy

When a client requests that proxy ftp connect to a ftp server with IPv6 address, and the proxy is unable to create an IPv6 socket, an infinite loop occurs causing a remote Denial of Service...

Apache Httpd < 2.0.47 : Remote DoS with multiple Listen directives

In a server with multiple listening sockets a certain error returned by accept on a rarely access port can cause a temporary denial of service, due to a bug in the prefork MPM...

Apache Httpd < 1.3.32 : mod_proxy buffer overflow

A buffer overflow was found in the Apache proxy module, modproxy, which can be triggered by receiving an invalid Content-Length header. In order to exploit this issue an attacker would need to get an Apache installation that was configured as a proxy to connect to a malicious site. This would cau...

Apache Httpd < 2.0.46 : OS2 device name DoS

Apache on OS2 up to and including Apache 2.0.45 have a Denial of Service vulnerability caused by device names...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: : Updated mod_auth_any packages available

Updated modauthany packages are now available for Red Hat Linux. modauthany is a Web server module that allows the Apache httpd server to call arbitrary external programs to verify user passwords. Vulnerabilities have been found in the way modauthany escapes shell arguments when calling external...

Apache Httpd < 2.0.47 : mod_ssl renegotiation issue

A bug in the optional renegotiation code in modssl included with Apache httpd can cause cipher suite restrictions to be ignored. This is triggered if optional renegotiation is used SSLOptions +OptRenegotiate along with verification of client certificates and a change to the cipher suite over the...

Apache Httpd < 2.0.46 : Basic Authentication DoS

A build system problem in Apache 2.0.40 through 2.0.45 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of access to authenticated content when a threaded server is used...

Apache Httpd < 2.0.46 : APR remote crash

A vulnerability in the aprpsprintf function in the Apache Portable Runtime APR library allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via long strings, as demonstrated using XML objects to moddav, and possibly other vectors...

Apache Httpd < 2.0.46 : Filtered escape sequences

Apache did not filter terminal escape sequences from its access logs, which could make it easier for attackers to insert those sequences into terminal emulators containing vulnerabilities related to escape sequences...

Apache Httpd < 2.0.49 : Error log escape filtering

Apache does not filter terminal escape sequences from error logs, which could make it easier for attackers to insert those sequences into terminal emulators containing vulnerabilities related to escape sequences...

Apache Httpd < 1.3.26 : Filtered escape sequences

Apache did not filter terminal escape sequences from its access logs, which could make it easier for attackers to insert those sequences into terminal emulators containing vulnerabilities related to escape sequences...

Apache Httpd < 1.3.31 : Error log escape filtering

Apache does not filter terminal escape sequences from error logs, which could make it easier for attackers to insert those sequences into terminal emulators containing vulnerabilities related to escape sequences...

Apache Httpd < 2.0.44 : MS-DOS device name filtering

On Windows platforms Apache did not correctly filter MS-DOS device names which could lead to denial of service attacks or remote code execution...

Apache Httpd < 2.0.44 : Apache can serve unexpected files

On Windows platforms Apache could be forced to serve unexpected files by appending illegal characters such as '' to the request URL...

Apache HTTPD server vulnerable to cross site scripting on error page when using wildcard DNS

Overview Versions of the Apache HTTPD server with wildcard DNS enabled and UseCanonicalName disabled, are vulnerable to a cross-site scripting attack. Description Apache HTTPD servers versions 2.0.42 and prior, and 1.3.26 and prior, with wildcard DNS enabled and UseCanonicalName disabled, are...

Apache Httpd < 2.0.42 : mod_dav crash

A flaw was found in handling of versioning hooks in moddav. An attacker could send a carefully crafted request in such a way to cause the child process handling the connection to crash. This issue will only result in a denial of service where a threaded process model is in use...