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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2019:3436-01 Moderate: httpd Access Bypass

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Calendar Grey November 5, 2019
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Explore information regarding the recent security enhancement for apache:2.4 within Red Hat ecosystems to bolster your server's protection.
An update for the httpd:2.4 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate

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

After installing the updated packages, the httpd daemon will be restarted automatically.

Summary

The httpd packages provide the Apache HTTP Server, a powerful, efficient, and extensible web server.
Security Fix(es):
* httpd: mod_auth_digest: access control bypass due to race condition (CVE-2019-0217)
* httpd: URL normalization inconsistency (CVE-2019-0220)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory access control bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux httpd Moderate

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-0217 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-0220 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.1_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: httpd-2.4.37-16.module+el8.1.0+4134+e6bad0ed.src.rpm mod_http2-1.11.3-3.module+el8.1.0+4134+e6bad0ed.src.rpm
aarch64: httpd-2.4.37-16.module+el8.1.0+4134+e6bad0ed.aarch64.rpm httpd-debuginfo-2.4.37-16.module+el8.1.0+4134+e6bad0ed.aarch64.rpm httpd-debugsource-2.4.37-16.module+el8.1.0+4134+e6bad0ed.aarch64.rpm httpd-devel-2.4.37-16.module+el8.1.0+4134+e6bad0ed.aarch64.rpm httpd-tools-2.4.37-16.module+el8.1.0+4134+e6bad0ed.aarch64.rpm httpd-tools-debuginfo-2.4.37-16.module+el8.1.0+4134+e6bad0ed.aarch64.rpm mod_http2-1.11.3-3.module+el8.1.0+4134+e6bad0ed.aarch64.rpm mod_http2-debuginfo-1.11.3-3.module+el8.1.0+4134+e6bad0ed.aarch64.rpm mod_http2-debugsource-1.11.3-3.module+el8.1.0+4134+e6bad0ed.aarch64.rpm mod_ldap-2.4.37-16.module+el8.1.0+4134+e6bad0ed.aarch64.rpm mod_ldap-debuginfo-2.4.37-16.module+el8.1.0+4134+e6bad0ed.aarch64.rpm mod_md-2.4.37-16.module+el8.1.0+4134+e6bad0ed.aarch64.rpm mod_md-debuginfo-2.4.37-16.module+el8.1.0+4134+e6bad0ed.aarch64.rpm mod_proxy_html-2.4.37-16.module+el8.1.0+4134+e6bad0ed.aarch64.rpm mod_proxy_html-debuginfo-2.4.37-16.module+el8.1.0+4134+e6bad0ed.aarch64.rpm mod_session-2.4.37-16.module+el8.1.0+4134+e6bad0ed.aarch64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:3436-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3436
Issue date: 2019-11-05

Topic

An update for the httpd:2.4 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory access control bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux httpd Moderate

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1669221 - `ExtendedStatus Off` directive when using mod_systemd causes systemctl to hang

1673022 - httpd can not be started with mod_md enabled

1695020 - CVE-2019-0217 httpd: mod_auth_digest: access control bypass due to race condition

1695036 - CVE-2019-0220 httpd: URL normalization inconsistency

1724549 - httpd response contains garbage in Content-Type header

1730721 - absolute path used for default state and runtime dir by default

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