Slackware: 2009-214-01 Critical: Httpd Denial-Of-Service

Here are the details from the Slackware 12.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/httpd-2.2.12-i486-1_slack12.2.tgz: Upgraded. This update fixes some security issues (from the CHANGES file): *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-1891 (cve.mitre.org) Fix a potential Denial-of-Service attack against mod_deflate or other modules, by forcing the server to consume CPU time in compressing a large file after a client disconnects. PR 39605. [Joe Orton, Ruediger Pluem] *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-1195 (cve.mitre.org) Prevent the "Includes" Option from being enabled in an .htaccess file if the AllowOverride restrictions do not permit it. [Jonathan Peatfield , Joe Orton, Ruediger Pluem, Jeff Trawick] *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-1890 (cve.mitre.org) Fix a potential Denial-of-Service attack against mod_proxy in a reverse proxy configuration, where a remote attacker can force a proxy process to consume CPU time indefinitely. [Nick Kew, Joe