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Red Hat 7.4 RHSA-2022:1138-01 Important Httpd Issues Fixed

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Calendar Grey April 2, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Security patch for Apache HTTP Server on Red Hat Linux deemed critical. Significant vulnerabilities for request smuggling and buffer overflow resolved.
An update for httpd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Advanced Update Support

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_lua: Possible buffer overflow when parsing multipart content (CVE-2021-44790)
* httpd: Errors encountered during the discarding of request body lead to HTTP request smuggling (CVE-2022-22720)
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow Red Hat Enterprise Linux httpd important request smuggling

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-44790 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-22720 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS (v. 7.4):
Source: httpd-2.4.6-67.el7_4.9.src.rpm
noarch: httpd-manual-2.4.6-67.el7_4.9.noarch.rpm
x86_64: httpd-2.4.6-67.el7_4.9.x86_64.rpm httpd-debuginfo-2.4.6-67.el7_4.9.x86_64.rpm httpd-devel-2.4.6-67.el7_4.9.x86_64.rpm httpd-tools-2.4.6-67.el7_4.9.x86_64.rpm mod_session-2.4.6-67.el7_4.9.x86_64.rpm mod_ssl-2.4.6-67.el7_4.9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional AUS (v. 7.4):
x86_64: httpd-debuginfo-2.4.6-67.el7_4.9.x86_64.rpm mod_ldap-2.4.6-67.el7_4.9.x86_64.rpm mod_proxy_html-2.4.6-67.el7_4.9.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:1138-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1138
Issue date: 2022-03-30

Topic

An update for httpd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4Advanced Update Support.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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow Red Hat Enterprise Linux httpd important request smuggling

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS (v. 7.4) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional AUS (v. 7.4) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2034674 - CVE-2021-44790 httpd: mod_lua: Possible buffer overflow when parsing multipart content

2064321 - CVE-2022-22720 httpd: Errors encountered during the discarding of request body lead to HTTP request smuggling

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