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Fedora: FEDORA-2004-118 Moderate: Apache httpd Memory Leak Fix

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Calendar Grey May 25, 2004
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Stay updated on the latest Apache HTTPD release for Fedora, which tackles key performance issues. Key improvements include fixes for memory leaks and better error log management
Fixes an exploitable memory leak and escapable error-log output.

Summary

Apache is a powerful, full-featured, efficient, and freely-available

Web server. Apache is also the most popular Web server on the

Internet.

Update Information:

This update includes the latest stable release of Apache httpd 2.0, including a security fix for a memory leak in mod_ssl which can be triggered remotely (CVE CAN-2004-0113), and a fix for escaping of error log output (CVE CAN-2003-0020).

This update also includes an enhanced version of the mod_cgi module which fixes a long-standing bug in the handling of stderr output during CGI script execution.

* Fri May 07 2004 Joe Orton <jorton@redhat.com> 2.0.49-1.1

- fix 2.0.48's httpd loading 2.0.49's mod_expires.so

* Fri May 07 2004 Joe Orton <jorton@redhat.com> 2.0.49-1.0

- update to 2.0.49 (thanks to Robert Scheck, #118798) - make "noindex" page valid XHTML 1.1 (Pascal Volk, #122020) - restore /etc/httpd/build/libtool symlink (#113720) - mod_cgi: backport fixes for stderr handling (upstream #22030) - mod_dav: misc improvements - add rgetline NUL-termination fixes (Tsurutani Naoki, upstream #28376)

This update can be downloaded from:


b008b66b5af9ce253a53a805919a6814 SRPMS/http...

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Change Log

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2004-117 2004-05-25
Product : Fedora Core 1 Name : httpd Version : 2.0.49 Release : 1.1 Summary : Apache HTTP Server Description : Apache is a powerful, full-featured, efficient, and freely-available Web server. Apache is also the most popular Web server on the Internet.

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora Core 1
Name: httpd
Version: 2.0.49
Release: 1.1
Summary: Apache HTTP Server

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