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Slackware 14.0 Security Update 2015-198-01 Moderate: Httpd Threat Fix

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Calendar Grey July 17, 2015
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Critical security patches for httpd on Slackware 14.0, 14.1, and -current are essential for protecting your server and mitigating vulnerabilities
New httpd packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/httpd-2.4.16-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes the following security issues: * CVE-2015-0253: Fix a crash with ErrorDocument 400 pointing to a local URL-path with the INCLUDES filter active, introduced in 2.4.11. * CVE-2015-0228: mod_lua: A maliciously crafted websockets PING after a script calls r:wsupgrade() can cause a child process crash. * CVE-2015-3183: core: Fix chunk header parsing defect. Remove apr_brigade_flatten(), buffering and duplicated code from the HTTP_IN filter, parse chunks in a single pass with zero copy. Limit accepted chunk-size to 2^63-1 and be strict about chunk-ext authorized characters. * CVE-2015-3185: Replacement of ap_some_auth_required (unusable in Apache httpd 2.4) with new ap_some_authn_required and ap_force_authn hook. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-0228

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Where Find New Packages

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (https://osuosl.org/) for donating FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 14.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0:
Updated package for Slackware 14.1:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 14.0 package: d78c9925e69ba6ce14d67fb67245981b httpd-2.4.16-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 1370e3c7e135bf07b65e73049099a942 httpd-2.4.16-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: ea116c45bba8c80f59cfe0394a8f87fa httpd-2.4.16-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 8b5b1caa1fa203b07b529f77834fac16 httpd-2.4.16-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package: 01ccb961f17bd14c1d157892af4c9f1d n/httpd-2.4.16-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 70a6644de3585007861e57cf08608843 n/httpd-2.4.16-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg httpd-2.4.16-i486-1_slack14.1.txz Then, restart Apache httpd: # /etc/rc.d/rc.httpd stop # /etc/rc.d/rc.httpd start

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