Slackware alert SSA:2009-214-01 (httpd)
| From: | Slackware Security Team <security@slackware.com> | |
| To: | slackware-security@slackware.com | |
| Subject: | [slackware-security] httpd (SSA:2009-214-01) | |
| Date: | Sun, 2 Aug 2009 15:33:03 -0700 (PDT) | |
| Message-ID: | <alpine.LNX.1.10.0908021532480.28879@bob.slackware.com> |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] httpd (SSA:2009-214-01) New httpd packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current to fix security issues. More details about these issues may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1891 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1195 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1890 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1191 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0023 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1955 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1956 Here are the details from the Slackware 12.2 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/httpd-2.2.12-i486-1_slack12.2.tgz: Upgraded. This update fixes some security issues (from the CHANGES file): *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-1891 (cve.mitre.org) Fix a potential Denial-of-Service attack against mod_deflate or other modules, by forcing the server to consume CPU time in compressing a large file after a client disconnects. PR 39605. [Joe Orton, Ruediger Pluem] *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-1195 (cve.mitre.org) Prevent the "Includes" Option from being enabled in an .htaccess file if the AllowOverride restrictions do not permit it. [Jonathan Peatfield <j.s.peatfield damtp.cam.ac.uk>, Joe Orton, Ruediger Pluem, Jeff Trawick] *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-1890 (cve.mitre.org) Fix a potential Denial-of-Service attack against mod_proxy in a reverse proxy configuration, where a remote attacker can force a proxy process to consume CPU time indefinitely. [Nick Kew, Joe Orton] *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-1191 (cve.mitre.org) mod_proxy_ajp: Avoid delivering content from a previous request which failed to send a request body. PR 46949 [Ruediger Pluem] *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-0023, CVE-2009-1955, CVE-2009-1956 (cve.mitre.org) The bundled copy of the APR-util library has been updated, fixing three different security issues which may affect particular configurations and third-party modules. These last three CVEs were addressed in Slackware previously with an update to new system apr and apr-util packages. For more information, see: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1891 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1195 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1890 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1191 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0023 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1955 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1956 (* Security fix *) +--------------------------+ Where to find the new packages: +-----------------------------+ HINT: Getting slow download speeds from ftp.slackware.com? Give slackware.osuosl.org a try. This is another primary FTP site for Slackware that can be considerably faster than downloading directly from ftp.slackware.com. Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (http://osuosl.org) for donating additional FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-) Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://slackware.com for additional mirror sites near you. Updated package for Slackware 12.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.0/patc... Updated package for Slackware 12.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.1/patc... Updated package for Slackware 12.2: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.2/patc... Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/s... Updated package for Slackware64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current... MD5 signatures: +-------------+ Slackware 12.0 package: 1ef7c8d65f8d7398abfcde3dd46aed7f httpd-2.2.12-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz Slackware 12.1 package: 349f4437fb4c2573a134c3485dda0265 httpd-2.2.12-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz Slackware 12.2 package: 253406ed8801276a635008d7749db55f httpd-2.2.12-i486-1_slack12.2.tgz Slackware -current package: 4a2ffd0ef9184fed93f651b83f6eaf6a httpd-2.2.12-i486-1.txz Slackware64 -current package: 560b607f09a934a46fc3112a2659b06b httpd-2.2.12-x86_64-1.txz Installation instructions: +------------------------+ Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg httpd-2.2.12-i486-1_slack12.2.tgz Then, restart the httpd server. +-----+ Slackware Linux Security Team http://slackware.com/gpg-key security@slackware.com +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | To leave the slackware-security mailing list: | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Send an email to majordomo@slackware.com with this text in the body of | | the email message: | | | | unsubscribe slackware-security | | | | You will get a confirmation message back containing instructions to | | complete the process. 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