Scientific Linux: CVE-2008-1678 Moderate: httpd Memory Leak Issue

Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 07:28:48 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: httpd on SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: httpd security update
Issue date:	2009-05-27
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-1678 CVE-2009-1195

A flaw was found in the handling of compression structures between
mod_ssl and OpenSSL. If too many connections were opened in a short
period of time, all system memory and swap space would be consumed by
httpd, negatively impacting other processes, or causing a system crash.
(CVE-2008-1678)

A flaw was found in the handling of the "Options" and "AllowOverride"
directives. In configurations using the "AllowOverride" directive with
certain "Options=" arguments, local users were not restricted from
executing commands from a Server-Side-Include script as intended.
(CVE-2009-1195)

Users must restart httpd for this update to take effect.

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
httpd-2.2.3-22.sl5.1.src.rpm
 i386:
httpd-2.2.3-22.sl5.1.i386.rpm
httpd-devel-2.2.3-22.sl5.1.i386.rpm
httpd-manual-2.2.3-22.sl5.1.i386.rpm
mod_ssl-2.2.3-22.sl5.1.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
httpd-2.2.3-22.sl5.1.x86_64.rpm
httpd-devel-2.2.3-22.sl5.1.i386.rpm
httpd-devel-2.2.3-22.sl5.1.x86_64.rpm
httpd-manual-2.2.3-22.sl5.1.x86_64.rpm
mod_ssl-2.2.3-22.sl5.1.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson
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