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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-6393 (httpd)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: httpd-2.2.9-1.fc9
Date:  Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:48:09 +0000
Message-ID:  <20080807234811.31EE01AD0FF@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-6393 2008-08-07 21:13:01 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : httpd Product : Fedora 9 Version : 2.2.9 Release : 1.fc9 URL : http://httpd.apache.org/ Summary : Apache HTTP Server Description : The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful, efficient, and extensible web server. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update includes the latest release of httpd 2.2. Two security issues are fixed in this update: A flaw was found in the handling of excessive interim responses from an origin server when using mod_proxy_http. In a forward proxy configuration, if a user of the proxy could be tricked into visiting a malicious web server, the proxy could be forced into consuming a large amount of stack or heap memory. This could lead to an eventual process crash due to stack space exhaustion. A flaw was found in the handling of compression structures between mod_ssl and OpenSSL. A remote attacker enabling compression in an SSL handshake could cause a memory leak in the server, leading to a denial of service. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri May 23 2008 Dennis Gilmore <dennis@ausil.us> - 2.2.8-3.1 - minor rebuild for sparc -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #447268 - CVE-2008-1678 httpd: mod_ssl per-connection memory leak for connections with zlib compression https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447268 [ 2 ] Bug #451615 - CVE-2008-2364 httpd: mod_proxy_http DoS via excessive interim responses from the origin server https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451615 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update httpd' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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