openSUSE 11.4 SUSE-SU-2012:0314-1 Important: Apache2 DoS Mitigation
opensuse
February 28, 2012
An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has one An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has one An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has one errata is no...
Description
This update of apache2 fixes regressions and several
security problems:
bnc#728876, fix graceful reload
bnc#741243, CVE-2012-0031: Fixed a scoreboard corruption
(shared mem segment) by child causes crash of privileged
parent (invalid free()) during shutdown.
bnc#743743, CVE-2012-0053: Fixed an issue in error
responses that could expose "httpOnly" cookies when no
custom ErrorDocument is specified for status code 400".
bnc#738855, CVE-2007-6750: The "mod_reqtimeout" module was
backported from Apache 2.2.21 to help mitigate the
"Slowloris" Denial of Service attack.
You need to enable the "mod_reqtimeout" module in your
existing apache configuration to make it effective, e.g. in
the APACHE_MODULES line in /etc/sysconfig/apache2.
Topics Covered
Patch
Patch Instructions:
To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- openSUSE 11.4:
zypper in -t patch apache2-201202-5821
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List
- openSUSE 11.4 (i586 x86_64):
apache2-2.2.17-4.13.1
apache2-devel-2.2.17-4.13.1
apache2-example-certificates-2.2.17-4.13.1
apache2-example-pages-2.2.17-4.13.1
apache2-itk-2.2.17-4.13.1
apache2-prefork-2.2.17-4.13.1
apache2-utils-2.2.17-4.13.1
apache2-worker-2.2.17-4.13.1
- openSUSE 11.4 (noarch):
apache2-doc-2.2.17-4.13.1
References
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-6750.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0031.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0053.html
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2012:0314-1
Rating: important
Affected Products:
openSUSE 11.4
Topics Covered
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