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Red Hat: RHSA-2017-3270-01 Important: apr Security Risk and Update

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Calendar Grey November 28, 2017
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Crucial patch released for apr on Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 6 and 7 targeting potential denial of service vulnerabilities.
An update for apr is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Applications using the APR libraries, such as httpd, must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Summary

The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is a portability library used by the Apache HTTP Server and other projects. It provides a free library of C data structures and routines.
Security Fix(es):
* An out-of-bounds array dereference was found in apr_time_exp_get(). An attacker could abuse an unvalidated usage of this function to cause a denial of service or potentially lead to data leak. (CVE-2017-12613)

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service important red hat enterprise linux apache portable runtime apr security issue

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-12613 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source: apr-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.src.rpm
i386: apr-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.i686.rpm apr-debuginfo-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.i686.rpm
x86_64: apr-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.i686.rpm apr-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.x86_64.rpm apr-debuginfo-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.i686.rpm apr-debuginfo-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6):
i386: apr-debuginfo-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.i686.rpm apr-devel-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.i686.rpm
x86_64: apr-debuginfo-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.i686.rpm apr-debuginfo-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.x86_64.rpm apr-devel-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.i686.rpm apr-devel-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6):
Source: apr-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.src.rpm
x86_64: apr-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.i686.rpm apr-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.x86_64.rpm apr-debuginfo-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.i686.rpm apr-debuginfo-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6):
x86_64: apr-debuginfo-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.i686.rpm apr-debuginfo-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.x86_64.rpm apr-devel-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.i686.rpm apr-devel-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):
Source: apr-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.src.rpm
i386: apr-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.i686.rpm apr-debuginfo-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.i686.rpm apr-devel-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.i686.rpm
ppc64: apr-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.ppc.rpm apr-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.ppc64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2017:3270-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3270
Issue date: 2017-11-28

Topic

An update for apr is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and RedHat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service important red hat enterprise linux apache portable runtime apr security issue

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server (v. 7) - aarch64, ppc64le

Bugs Fixed

1506523 - CVE-2017-12613 apr: Out-of-bounds array deref in apr_time_exp*() functions

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