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Fedora 9 FEDORA-2009-2654 Critical Mod_Security DoS Threat Fix

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Calendar Grey March 13, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This enhancement addresses critical safety issues in Fedora 9's mod_security, offering better protection against service disruptions.
Security fixes for potential denials of service when using PDF XSS protection as well as when parsing multipart requests.

Summary

ModSecurity is an open source intrusion detection and prevention engine

for web applications. It operates embedded into the web server, acting

as a powerful umbrella - shielding web applications from attacks.

Security fixes for potential denials of service when using PDF XSS protection as

well as when parsing multipart requests.

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* Thu Mar 12 2009 Michael Fleming 2.5.9-1

- Update to upstream release 2.5.9

- Fixes potential DoS' in multipart request and PDF XSS handling

* Mon Dec 29 2008 Michael Fleming 2.5.7-1

- Update to upstream 2.5.7

- Reinstate mlogc

* Sat Aug 2 2008 Michael Fleming 2.5.6-1

- Update to upstream 2.5.6

- Remove references to mlogc, it no longer ships in the main tarball.

- Link correctly vs. libxml2 and lua (bz# 445839)

- Remove bogus LoadFile directives as they're no longer needed.

* Sun Apr 13 2008 Michael Fleming 2.1.7-1

- Update to upstream 2.1.7

su -c 'yum update mod_security' at the command line.

For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",

available at .

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

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

Fedora-package-announce mailing list

Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/

Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 9
Version: 2.5.9
Release: 1.fc9
Summary: Security module for the Apache HTTP Server

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