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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHSA-2020:3958-01 Moderate: httpd Security Fix

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Calendar Grey September 29, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Ubuntu provides a significant security patch for nginx highlighting essential corrections affecting server stability.
An update for httpd is now available for 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

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: Improper handling of headers in mod_session can allow a remote user to modify session data for CGI applications (CVE-2018-1283)
* httpd: Out of bounds read in mod_cache_socache can allow a remote attacker to cause DoS (CVE-2018-1303)
* httpd: mod_rewrite configurations vulnerable to open redirect (CVE-2020-1927)
* httpd: bypass with a trailing newline in the file name (CVE-2017-15715)
* httpd: mod_rewrite potential open redirect (CVE-2019-10098)
* httpd: mod_proxy_ftp use of uninitialized value (CVE-2020-1934)
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 7.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue bug fix DoS Red Hat Enterprise Linux httpd

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15715 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1283 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1303 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-10098 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1927 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1934 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.9_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
Source: httpd-2.4.6-95.el7.src.rpm
noarch: httpd-manual-2.4.6-95.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64: httpd-2.4.6-95.el7.x86_64.rpm httpd-debuginfo-2.4.6-95.el7.x86_64.rpm httpd-devel-2.4.6-95.el7.x86_64.rpm httpd-tools-2.4.6-95.el7.x86_64.rpm mod_ldap-2.4.6-95.el7.x86_64.rpm mod_proxy_html-2.4.6-95.el7.x86_64.rpm mod_session-2.4.6-95.el7.x86_64.rpm mod_ssl-2.4.6-95.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
Source: httpd-2.4.6-95.el7.src.rpm
noarch: httpd-manual-2.4.6-95.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64: httpd-2.4.6-95.el7.x86_64.rpm httpd-debuginfo-2.4.6-95.el7.x86_64.rpm httpd-devel-2.4.6-95.el7.x86_64.rpm httpd-tools-2.4.6-95.el7.x86_64.rpm mod_ldap-2.4.6-95.el7.x86_64.rpm mod_proxy_html-2.4.6-95.el7.x86_64.rpm mod_session-2.4.6-95.el7.x86_64.rpm mod_ssl-2.4.6-95.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: httpd-2.4.6-95.el7.src.rpm
noarch: httpd-manual-2.4.6-95.el7.noarch.rpm
ppc64: httpd-2.4.6-95.el7.ppc64.rpm httpd-debuginfo-2.4.6-95.el7.ppc64.rpm httpd-devel-2.4.6-95.el7.ppc64.rpm httpd-tools-2.4.6-95.el7.ppc64.rpm mod_session-2.4.6-95.el7.ppc64.rpm mod_ssl-2.4.6-95.el7.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le: httpd-2.4.6-95.el7.ppc64le.rpm httpd-debuginfo-2.4.6-95.el7.ppc64le.rpm httpd-devel-2.4.6-95.el7.ppc64le.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:3958-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3958
Issue date: 2020-09-29

Topic

An update for httpd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue bug fix DoS Red Hat Enterprise Linux httpd

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bugs Fixed

1560395 - CVE-2018-1283 httpd: Improper handling of headers in mod_session can allow a remote user to modify session data for CGI applications

1560399 - CVE-2018-1303 httpd: Out of bounds read in mod_cache_socache can allow a remote attacker to cause DoS

1560614 - CVE-2017-15715 httpd: bypass with a trailing newline in the file name

1715981 - Backport of SessionExpiryUpdateInterval directive

1724879 - httpd terminates all SSL connections using an abortive shutdown

1743959 - CVE-2019-10098 httpd: mod_rewrite potential open redirect

1820761 - CVE-2020-1927 httpd: mod_rewrite configurations vulnerable to open redirect

1820772 - CVE-2020-1934 httpd: mod_proxy_ftp use of uninitialized value

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