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Fedora 28: HTTPD 2.4.34 DoS Advisory for mod_md Coredumps

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Calendar Grey July 25, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This release features an upgrade to Apache HTTP Server httpd 2.4.34 addressing a security vulnerability in mod_md related to Denial of Service. Discover additional details here.
This update includes the latest upstream release, **httpd 2.4.34**, with multiple bug fixes and enhancements

Summary

The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful, efficient, and extensible

web server.

This update includes the latest upstream release, **httpd 2.4.34**, with

multiple bug fixes and enhancements. See

for more information on the

changes in this version. A security vulnerability is addressed in this update:

* `mod_md`: DoS via Coredumps on specially crafted requests (CVE-2018-8011)

The following changes are also included in this update: * The post-transaction

scriptlet to restart `httpd.service` no longer blocks waiting for the restart to

complete. * `mod_ssl` now supports loading private keys (and associated

certificates) from a PKCS#11 provider. Use a `pkcs11:` URI in the

`SSLCertificateKeyFile` (and optionally `SSLCertificateFile`) directive(s). * An

example Lua-based `server-status.conf` is packaged in the docdir * `httpd` now

Obsoletes `mod_proxy_uwsgi` (RHBZ#1599113) * `mod_systemd` now logs listening

ports at startup

* Fri Jul 20 2018 Joe Orton - 2.4.34-3

- mod_ssl: fix OCSP regression (upstream r1555631)

* Wed Jul 18 2018 Joe Orton - 2.4.34-2

- update Obsoletes for mod_proxy_uswgi (#1599113)

* Wed Jul 18 2018 Joe Orton - 2.4.34-1

- update to 2.4.34 (#1601160)

* Mon Jul 16 2018 Joe Orton - 2.4.33-10

- don't block on service try-restart in posttrans scriptlet

- add Lua-based /server-status example page to docs

- obsoletes: and provides: for mod_proxy_uswgi (#1599113)

* Fri Jul 13 2018 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.4.33-9

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild

* Fri Jul 6 2018 Joe Orton - 2.4.33-8

- add per-request memory leak fix (upstream r1833014)

* Fri Jul 6 2018 Joe Orton - 2.4.33-7

- mod_ssl: add PKCS#11 cert/key support (Anderson Sasaki)

* Tue Jun 12 2018 Joe Orton - 2.4.33-6

- mod_systemd: show bound ports in status and log to journal

at startup.

* Thu Apr 19 2018 Joe Orton - 2.4.33-5

- add httpd@.service; update httpd.service(8) and add new stub

* Mon Apr 16 2018 Joe Orton - 2.4.33-4

- mod_md: change hard-coded default MdStoreDir to state/md (#1563846)

* Thu Apr 12 2018 Joe Orton - 2.4.33-3

- mod_ssl: drop implicit 'SSLEngine on' for vhost w/o certs (#1564537)

[ 1 ] Bug #1605052 - CVE-2018-8011 httpd: mod_md: NULL pointer dereference causing httpd child process crash

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1605052

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-49d3b42425' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 28
Version: 2.4.34
Release: 3.fc28
Summary: Apache HTTP Server

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