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Scientific Linux 3.x/4.x/5.x: 2008-11-11 Moderate: Httpd Security Update

Calendar Nov 12, 2008 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory moderate denial of service cross-site scripting httpd Scientific Linux
Moderate: httpd security and bug fix update 
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:30:42 -0600
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for httpd on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: httpd security and bug fix update
Issue date:	2008-11-11
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-2364 CVE-2008-2939

A flaw was found in the mod_proxy Apache module. An attacker in control of
a Web server to which requests were being proxied could have caused a
limited denial of service due to CPU consumption and stack exhaustion.
(CVE-2008-2364)

A flaw was found in the mod_proxy_ftp Apache module. If Apache was
configured to support FTP-over-HTTP proxying, a remote attacker could have
performed a cross-site scripting attack. (CVE-2008-2939)

In addition, these updated packages fix a bug found in the handling of the
"ProxyRemoteMatch" directive in the Scientific Linux 4 httpd
packages. This bug is not present in the Scientific Linux 3 or
Scientific Linux 5 packages.

SL 3.0.x

 SRPMS:
httpd-2.0.46-71.sl3.src.rpm
 i386:
httpd-2.0.46-71.sl3.i386.rpm
httpd-devel-2.0.46-71.sl3.i386.rpm
mod_ssl-2.0.46-71.sl3.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
httpd-2.0.46-71.sl3.x86_64.rpm
httpd-devel-2.0.46-71.sl3.x86_64.rpm
mod_ssl-2.0.46-71.sl3.x86_64.rpm

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
httpd-2.0.52-41.sl4.2.src.rpm
 i386:
httpd-2.0.52-41.sl4.2.i386.rpm
httpd-devel-2.0.52-41.sl4.2.i386.rpm
httpd-manual-2.0.52-41.sl4.2.i386.rpm
httpd-suexec-2.0.52-41.sl4.2.i386.rpm
mod_ssl-2.0.52-41.sl4.2.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
httpd-2.0.52-41.sl4.2.x86_64.rpm
httpd-devel-2.0.52-41.sl4.2.x86_64.rpm
httpd-manual-2.0.52-41.sl4.2.x86_64.rpm
httpd-suexec-2.0.52-41.sl4.2.x86_64.rpm
mod_ssl-2.0.52-41.sl4.2.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
httpd-2.2.3-11.sl5.4.src.rpm
 i386:
httpd-2.2.3-11.sl5.4.i386.rpm
httpd-devel-2.2.3-11.sl5.4.i386.rpm
httpd-manual-2.2.3-11.sl5.4.i386.rpm
mod_ssl-2.2.3-11.sl5.4.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
httpd-2.2.3-11.sl5.4.x86_64.rpm
httpd-devel-2.2.3-11.sl5.4.i386.rpm
httpd-devel-2.2.3-11.sl5.4.x86_64.rpm
httpd-manual-2.2.3-11.sl5.4.x86_64.rpm
mod_ssl-2.2.3-11.sl5.4.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson