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security advisoryupdatedebianDebian 11 bullseye DLA-4212-1 moderate: modsecurity-apache DoS fix
DoS with sanitiseArg/sanitizeArg has been fixed in modsecurity-apache, a module for the Apache webserver to tighten Web application security. For Debian 11 bullseye, this problem has been fixed in version . - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian LTS Advisory DLA-4212-1
Jun 09, 2025
Debian LTS
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security advisorydenial of servicedebianDebian Bookworm: DSA-5940-1 critical: modsecurity-apache DoS issue
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in modsecurity-apache, an Apache module to tighten the Web application security, which may result in denial of service (high memory consumption). . - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-5940-1
Jun 08, 2025
•Critical
Debian
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security advisoryupdatedebianDebian Bullseye DLA-4192-1: modsecurity-apache DoS Correction
DoS with sanitiseMatchedBytes has been fixed in modsecurity-apache, a module for the Apache webserver to tighten Web application security. For Debian 11 bullseye, this problem has been fixed in version . - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian LTS Advisory DLA-4192-1
May 29, 2025
•Critical
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security advisorysecurity issueupdateFedora 41: 2025-66ebd291f8 moderate: TLS session resumption issue
Changes with nginx 1.26.3 05 Feb 2025 *) Security: insufficient check in virtual servers handling with TLSv1.3 SNI allowed to reuse SSL sessions in a different virtual server, to bypass client SSL certificates verification (CVE-2025-23419). *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module.. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2025-66ebd291f8 2025-02-15 02:35:33.711202+00:00 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : nginx-mod-modsecurity Product : Fedora 41 Version : 1.0.3 Release : 16.fc41 URL : https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity-nginx Summary : ModSecurity v3 nginx connector Description : The ModSecurity-nginx connector is the connection point between nginx and libmodsecurity (ModSecurity v3). Said another way, this project provides a communication channel between nginx and libmodsecurity. This connector is required to use LibModSecurity with nginx. The ModSecurity-nginx connector takes the form of an nginx module. The module simply serves as a layer of communication between nginx and ModSecurity -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Changes with nginx 1.26.3 05 Feb 2025 *) Security: insufficient check in virtual servers handling with TLSv1.3 SNI allowed to reuse SSL sessions in a different virtual server, to bypass client SSL certificates verification (CVE-2025-23419). *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module. Thanks to Nils Bars. *) Workaround: "gzip filter failed to use preallocated memory" alerts appeared in logs when using zlib-ng. *) Bugfix: nginx could not build libatomic library using the library sources if the --with-libatomic=DIR option was used. *) Bugfix: nginx now ignores QUIC version negotiation packets from clients. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris10 and earlier with the ngx_http_v3_module. *) Bugfixes in HTTP/3. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Feb 6 2025 Felix Kaechele - 1.0.3-16 - Rebuild for nginx 1.26.3 * Fri Jan 17 2025 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.0.3-15 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_42_Mass_Rebuild * Mon Aug 26 2024 Felix Kaechele - 1.0.3-14 - Rebuild for nginx 1.26.2... again. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #2277663 - please switch to using systemd-sysusers to create the nginx user https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2277663 [ 2 ] Bug #2344198 - CVE-2025-23419 nginx: TLS Session Resumption Vulnerability [fedora-41] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2344198 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-66ebd291f8' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/security/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list --
Feb 15, 2025
Fedora
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security advisoryupdatecriticalFedora 40: FEDORA-2025-016ed44ddc moderate: nginx TLS session bypass
Changes with nginx 1.26.3 05 Feb 2025 *) Security: insufficient check in virtual servers handling with TLSv1.3 SNI allowed to reuse SSL sessions in a different virtual server, to bypass client SSL certificates verification (CVE-2025-23419). *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module.. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2025-016ed44ddc 2025-02-15 02:22:06.812098+00:00 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : nginx-mod-modsecurity Product : Fedora 40 Version : 1.0.3 Release : 16.fc40 URL : https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity-nginx Summary : ModSecurity v3 nginx connector Description : The ModSecurity-nginx connector is the connection point between nginx and libmodsecurity (ModSecurity v3). Said another way, this project provides a communication channel between nginx and libmodsecurity. This connector is required to use LibModSecurity with nginx. The ModSecurity-nginx connector takes the form of an nginx module. The module simply serves as a layer of communication between nginx and ModSecurity -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Changes with nginx 1.26.3 05 Feb 2025 *) Security: insufficient check in virtual servers handling with TLSv1.3 SNI allowed to reuse SSL sessions in a different virtual server, to bypass client SSL certificates verification (CVE-2025-23419). *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module. Thanks to Nils Bars. *) Workaround: "gzip filter failed to use preallocated memory" alerts appeared in logs when using zlib-ng. *) Bugfix: nginx could not build libatomic library using the library sources if the --with-libatomic=DIR option was used. *) Bugfix: nginx now ignores QUIC version negotiation packets from clients. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris10 and earlier with the ngx_http_v3_module. *) Bugfixes in HTTP/3. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Feb 6 2025 Felix Kaechele - 1.0.3-16 - Rebuild for nginx 1.26.3 * Fri Jan 17 2025 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.0.3-15 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_42_Mass_Rebuild * Mon Aug 26 2024 Felix Kaechele - 1.0.3-14 - Rebuild for nginx 1.26.2... again. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #2277663 - please switch to using systemd-sysusers to create the nginx user https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2277663 [ 2 ] Bug #2344197 - CVE-2025-23419 nginx: TLS Session Resumption Vulnerability [fedora-40] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2344197 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-016ed44ddc' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/security/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list --
Feb 15, 2025
Fedora
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security advisorymoderatethreat mitigationopenSUSE 2025:14717-1 moderate: OWASP ModSecurity CRS security fix
An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.. # owasp-modsecurity-crs-4.10.0-1.1 on GA media Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2025:14717-1 Rating: moderate Cross-References: * CVE-2023-5003 Affected Products: * openSUSE Tumbleweed An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed. ## Description: These are all security issues fixed in the owasp-modsecurity-crs-4.10.0-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed. ## Package List: * openSUSE Tumbleweed: * owasp-modsecurity-crs 4.10.0-1.1 * owasp-modsecurity-crs-apache2 4.10.0-1.1 ## References: * https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5003.html . Critical patch released for OWASP ModSecurity CRS on openSUSE Tumbleweed to address a security flaw. Immediate action is required.. openSUSE Security Update, ModSecurity Advisory, OWASP Threat, ModSecurity CRS, Tumbleweed Security. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 31, 2025
OpenSUSE
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security advisorysoftware updatesystem stabilityopenSUSE 2023:0269-1 Moderate: Modsecurity DoS Exploit Mitigation
An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available. . openSUSE Security Update: Security update for modsecurity ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2023:0269-1 Rating: moderate References: #1210993 #1213702 Cross-References: CVE-2020-15598 CVE-2021-42717 CVE-2023-28882 CVE-2023-38285 CVSS scores: CVE-2020-15598 (NVD) : 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVE-2021-42717 (NVD) : 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVE-2021-42717 (SUSE): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVE-2023-28882 (NVD) : 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVE-2023-28882 (SUSE): 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVE-2023-38285 (NVD) : 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP4 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available. Description: This update for modsecurity fixes the following issues: Update to version 3.0.10: * Security impacting issue (fix boo#1213702, CVE-2023-38285) - Fix: worst-case time in implementation of four transformations - Additional information on this issue is available at s-vulnerability-in-four-transformations-cve-2023-38285/ * Enhancements and bug fixes - Add TX synonym for MSC_PCRE_LIMITS_EXCEEDED - Make MULTIPART_PART_HEADERS accessible to lua - Fix: Lua scripts cannot read whole collection at once - Fix: quoted Include config with wildcard - Support isolated PCRE match limits - Fix: meta actions not applied if multiMatch in first rule of chain - Fix: audit log may omit tags when multiMatch - Exclude CRLF from MULTIPART_PART_HEADER value - Configure:use AS_ECHO_N instead echo -n - Adjust position of memset from 2890 Update to version 3.0.9: * Add some member variable inits in Transaction class (possible segfault) * Fix: possible segfault on reload if duplicate ip+CIDR in ip match list * Resolve memory leak on reload (bison-generated variable) * Support equals sign in XPath expressions * Encode two special chars in error.log output * Add JIT support for PCRE2 * Support comments in ipMatchFromFile file via '#' token * Use name package name libmaxminddb with pkg-config * Fix: FILES_TMP_CONTENT collection key should use part name * Use AS_HELP_STRING instead of obsolete AC_HELP_STRING macro * During configure, do not check for pcre if pcre2 specified * Use pkg-config to find libxml2 first * Fix two rule-reload memory leak issues * Correct whitespace handling for Include directive - Fix CVE-2023-28882, a segfault and a resultant crash of a worker process in some configurations with certain inputs, boo#1210993 Update to version 3.0.8 * Adjust parser activation rules in modsecurity.conf-recommended [#2796] * Multipart parsing fixes and new MULTIPART_PART_HEADERS collection [#2795] * Prevent LMDB related segfault [#2755, #2761] * Fix msc_transaction_cleanup function comment typo [#2788] * Fix: MULTIPART_INVALID_PART connected to wrong internal variable [#2785] * Restore Unique_id to include random portion after timestamp [#2752, #2758] Update to version 3.0.7 * Support PCRE2 * Support SecRequestBodyNoFilesLimit * Add ctl:auditEngine action support * Move PCRE2 match block from member variable * Add SecArgumentsLimit, 200007 to modsecurity.conf-recommended * Fix memory leak when concurrent log includes REMOTE_USER * Fix LMDB initialization issues * Fix initcol error message wording * Tolerate other parameters after boundary in multipart C-T * Add DebugLog message for bad pattern in rx operator * Fix misuses of LMDB API * Fix duplicationtypo in code comment * Fix multiMatch msg, etc, population in audit log * Fix some name handling for ARGS_*NAMES: regex SecRuleUpdateTargetById, etc. * Adjust confusing variable name in setRequestBody method * Multipart names/filenames may include single quote if double-quote enclosed * Add SecRequestBodyJsonDepthLimit to modsecurity.conf-recommended Update to version 3.0.6 * Security issue: Support configurable limit on depth of JSON parsing, possible DoS issue. CVE-2021-42717 Update to version 3.0.5 * New: Having ARGS_NAMES, variables proxied * Fix: FILES variable does not use multipart part name for key * GeoIP: switch to GEOIP_MEMORY_CACHE from GEOIP_INDEX_CACHE * Support configurable limit on number of arguments processed * Adds support to lua 5.4 * Add support for new operator rxGlobal * Fix: Replaces put with setenv in SetEnv action * Fix: Regex key selection should not be case-sensitive * Fix: Only delete Multipart tmp files after rules have run * Fixed MatchedVar on chained rules * Fix IP address logging in Section A * Fix: rx: exit after full match (remove /g emulation); ensure capture groups occuring after unused groups still populate TX vars * Fix rule-update-target for non-regex * Fix Security Impacting Issues: * Handle URI received with uri-fragment, CVE-2020-15598 Update to version 3.0.4: * Fix: audit log data omitted when nolog,auditlog * Fix: ModSecurity 3.x inspectFile operator does not pass * XML: Remove error messages from stderr * Filter comment or blank line for pmFromFile operator * Additional adjustment to Cookie header parsing * Restore chained rule part H logging to be more like 2.9 behaviour * Small fixes in log messages to help debugging the file upload * Fix Cookie header parsing issues * Fix rules with nolog are logging to part H * Fix argument key-value pair parsing cases * Fix: audit log part for response body for JSON format to be E * Make surem_rulesMessages is filled after successfull match * Fix @pm lookup for possible matches on offset zero. * Regex lookup on the key name instead of COLLECTION:key * Missing throw in Operator::instantiate * Making block action execution dependent of the SecEngine status * Making block action execution dependent of the SecEngine status * Having body limits to respect the rule engine state * Fix SecRuleUpdateTargetById does not match regular expressions * Adds missing check for runtime ctl:ruleRemoveByTag * Adds a new operator verifySVNR that checks for Austrian social security numbers. * Fix variables output in debug logs * Correct typo validade in log output * fix/minor: Error encoding hexa decimal. * Limit more log variables to 200 characters. * parser: fix parsed file names * Allow empty anchored variable * Fixed FILES_NAMES collection after the end of multipart parsing * Fixed validateByteRange parsing method * Removes a memory leak on the JSON parser * Enables LMDB on the regression tests. * Fix: Extra whitespace in some configuration directives causing error * Refactoring on Regex and SMatch classes. * Fixed buffer overflow in Utils::Md5::hexdigest() * Implemented merge() method for ConfigInt, ConfigDouble, ConfigString * Adds initially support to the drop action. * Complete merging of particular rule properties * Replaces AC_CHECK_FILE with 'test -f' * Fix inet addr handling on 64 bit big endian systems * Fix tests on FreeBSD * Changes ENV test case to read the default MODSECURTIY env var * Regression: Sets MODSECURITY env var during the tests execution * Fix setenv action to strdup key=variable * Allow 0 length JSON requests. * Fix "make dist" target to include default configuration * Replaced log locking using mutex with fcntl lock * Correct the usage of modsecurity::Phases::NUMBER_OF_PHASES * Adds support to multiple ranges in ctl:ruleRemoveById * Rule variable interpolation broken * Makethe boundary check less strict as per RFC2046 * Fix buffer size for utf8toUnicode transformation * Fix double macros bug * Override the default status code if not suitable to redirect action * parser: Fix the support for CRLF configuration files * Organizes the server logs * m_lineNumber in Rule not mapping with the correct line number in file * Using shared_ptr instead of unique_ptr on rules exceptions * Changes debuglogs schema to avoid unecessary str allocation * Fix the SecUnicodeMapFile and SecUnicodeCodePage * Changes the timing to save the rule message * Fix crash in msc_rules_add_file() when using disruptive action in chain * Fix memory leak in AuditLog::init() * Fix RulesProperties::appendRules() * Fix RULE lookup in chained rules * @ipMatch "Could not add entry" on slash/32 notation in 2.9.0 * Using values after transformation at MATCHED_VARS * Adds support to UpdateActionById. * Add correct C function prototypes for msc_init and msc_create_rule_set * Allow LuaJIT 2.1 to be used * Match m_id JSON log with RuleMessage and v2 format * Adds support to setenv action. * Adds new transaction constructor that accepts the transaction id as parameter. * Adds request IDs and URIs to the debug log * Treating variables exception on load-time instead of run time. * Fix: function m.setvar in Lua scripts and add testcases * Fix SecResponseBodyAccess and ctl:requestBodyAccess directives * Fix parser to support GeoLookup with MaxMind * parser: Fix simple quote setvar in the end of the line * modsec_rules_check: uses the gnu `.la' instead of `.a' file * good practices: Initialize variables before use it * Fix utf-8 character encoding conversion * Adds support for ctl:requestBodyProcessor=URLENCODED * Add LUA compatibility for CentOS and try to use LuaJIT first if available * Allow LuaJIT to be used * Implement support for Lua 5.1 * Variable names must match fully, not partially. Match should be case insensitive. * Improves the performance while loading the rules * Allow empty strings to be evaluated by regex::searchAll * Adds basic pkg-config info * Fixed LMDB collection errors * Fixed false positive MULTIPART_UNMATCHED_BOUNDARY errors * Fix ip tree lookup on netmask content * Changes the behavior of the default sec actions * Refactoring on {global,ip,resources,session,tx,user} collections * Fix race condition in UniqueId::uniqueId() * Fix memory leak in error message for msc_rules_merge C APIs * Return false in SharedFiles::open() when an error happens * Use rvalue reference in ModSecurity::serverLog * Build System: Fix when multiple lines for curl version. * Checks if response body inspection is enabled before process it * Fix setvar parsing of quoted data * Adds time stamp back to the audit logs * Disables skip counter if debug log is disabled * Cosmetics: Represents amount of skipped rules without decimal * Add missing escapeSeqDecode, urlEncode and trimLeft/Right tfns to parser * Fix STATUS var parsing and accept STATUS_LINE var for v2 backward comp. * Fix memory leak in modsecurity::utils::expandEnv() * Initialize m_dtd member in ValidateDTD class as NULL * Fix broken @detectxss operator regression test case * Fix utils::string::ssplit() to handle delimiter in the end of string * Fix variable FILES_TMPNAMES * Fix memory leak in Collections * Fix lib version information while generating the .so file * Adds support for ctl:ruleRemoveByTag * Fix SecUploadDir configuration merge * Include all prerequisites for "make check" into dist archive * Fix: Reverse logic of checking output in @inspectFile * Adds support to libMaxMind * Adds capture action to detectXSS * Temporarily accept invalid MULTIPART_SEMICOLON_MISSING operator * Adds capture action to detectSQLi * Adds capture action to rbl * Adds capture action to verifyCC * Adds capture action to verifySSN * Adds capture action to verifyCPF * Prettier error messages for unsupported configurations (UX) * Add missing verify*** transformation statements to parser * Fix a set of compilation warnings * Check for disruptive action on SecDefaultAction. * Fix block-block infinite loop. * Correction remove_by_tag and remove_by_msg logic. * Fix LMDB compile error * Fix msc_who_am_i() to return pointer to a valid C string * Added some cosmetics to autoconf related code * Fix "make dist" target to include necessary headers for Lua * Fix "include /foo/*.conf" for single matched object in directory * Add missing Base64 transformation statements to parser * Fixed resource load on ip match from file * Fixed examples compilation while using disable-shared * Fixed compilation issue while xml is disabled * Having LDADD and LDFLAGS organized on Makefile.am * Checking std::deque size before use it * perf improvement: Added the concept of RunTimeString and removed all run time parser. * perf improvement: Checks debuglog level before format debug msg * perf. improvement/rx: Only compute dynamic regex in case of macro * Fix uri on the benchmark utility * disable Lua on systems with liblua5.1 Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP4: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2023-269=1 Package List: - openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP4 (aarch64 i586 ppc64le s390x x86_64): libmodsecurity3-3.0.10-bp154.2.3.1 modsecurity-3.0.10-bp154.2.3.1 modsecurity-devel-3.0.10-bp154.2.3.1 - openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP4 (aarch64_ilp32): libmodsecurity3-64bit-3.0.10-bp154.2.3.1 - openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP4 (x86_64): libmodsecurity3-32bit-3.0.10-bp154.2.3.1 References: https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15598.html https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-42717.html https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-28882.html https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38285.html https://bugzilla.suse.com/1210993 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1213702 . Stay secure with the latest OWASP Core Rule Set updates to combat vulnerabilities. Optimize ModSecurity performance on openSUSE while monitoring logs with tools like Fail2Ban. OpenSUSE Security Update, Modsecurity Fix, DoS Prevention, Software Updates. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 26, 2023
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security advisorysystem updatethreat mitigationopenSUSE: 2023:0257-1 Moderate: Modsecurity Segfault Issue
An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available. . openSUSE Security Update: Security update for modsecurity ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2023:0257-1 Rating: moderate References: #1210993 #1213702 Cross-References: CVE-2020-15598 CVE-2021-42717 CVE-2023-28882 CVE-2023-38285 CVSS scores: CVE-2020-15598 (NVD) : 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVE-2021-42717 (NVD) : 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVE-2021-42717 (SUSE): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVE-2023-28882 (NVD) : 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVE-2023-28882 (SUSE): 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVE-2023-38285 (NVD) : 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP5 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available. Description: This update for modsecurity fixes the following issues: Update to version 3.0.10: * Security impacting issue (fix boo#1213702, CVE-2023-38285) - Fix: worst-case time in implementation of four transformations - Additional information on this issue is available at s-vulnerability-in-four-transformations-cve-2023-38285/ * Enhancements and bug fixes - Add TX synonym for MSC_PCRE_LIMITS_EXCEEDED - Make MULTIPART_PART_HEADERS accessible to lua - Fix: Lua scripts cannot read whole collection at once - Fix: quoted Include config with wildcard - Support isolated PCRE match limits - Fix: meta actions not applied if multiMatch in first rule of chain - Fix: audit log may omit tags when multiMatch - Exclude CRLF from MULTIPART_PART_HEADER value - Configure:use AS_ECHO_N instead echo -n - Adjust position of memset from 2890 Update to version 3.0.9: * Add some member variable inits in Transaction class (possible segfault) * Fix: possible segfault on reload if duplicate ip+CIDR in ip match list * Resolve memory leak on reload (bison-generated variable) * Support equals sign in XPath expressions * Encode two special chars in error.log output * Add JIT support for PCRE2 * Support comments in ipMatchFromFile file via '#' token * Use name package name libmaxminddb with pkg-config * Fix: FILES_TMP_CONTENT collection key should use part name * Use AS_HELP_STRING instead of obsolete AC_HELP_STRING macro * During configure, do not check for pcre if pcre2 specified * Use pkg-config to find libxml2 first * Fix two rule-reload memory leak issues * Correct whitespace handling for Include directive - Fix CVE-2023-28882, a segfault and a resultant crash of a worker process in some configurations with certain inputs, boo#1210993 Update to version 3.0.8 * Adjust parser activation rules in modsecurity.conf-recommended [#2796] * Multipart parsing fixes and new MULTIPART_PART_HEADERS collection [#2795] * Prevent LMDB related segfault [#2755, #2761] * Fix msc_transaction_cleanup function comment typo [#2788] * Fix: MULTIPART_INVALID_PART connected to wrong internal variable [#2785] * Restore Unique_id to include random portion after timestamp [#2752, #2758] Update to version 3.0.7 * Support PCRE2 * Support SecRequestBodyNoFilesLimit * Add ctl:auditEngine action support * Move PCRE2 match block from member variable * Add SecArgumentsLimit, 200007 to modsecurity.conf-recommended * Fix memory leak when concurrent log includes REMOTE_USER * Fix LMDB initialization issues * Fix initcol error message wording * Tolerate other parameters after boundary in multipart C-T * Add DebugLog message for bad pattern in rx operator * Fix misuses of LMDB API * Fix duplicationtypo in code comment * Fix multiMatch msg, etc, population in audit log * Fix some name handling for ARGS_*NAMES: regex SecRuleUpdateTargetById, etc. * Adjust confusing variable name in setRequestBody method * Multipart names/filenames may include single quote if double-quote enclosed * Add SecRequestBodyJsonDepthLimit to modsecurity.conf-recommended Update to version 3.0.6 * Security issue: Support configurable limit on depth of JSON parsing, possible DoS issue. CVE-2021-42717 Update to version 3.0.5 * New: Having ARGS_NAMES, variables proxied * Fix: FILES variable does not use multipart part name for key * GeoIP: switch to GEOIP_MEMORY_CACHE from GEOIP_INDEX_CACHE * Support configurable limit on number of arguments processed * Adds support to lua 5.4 * Add support for new operator rxGlobal * Fix: Replaces put with setenv in SetEnv action * Fix: Regex key selection should not be case-sensitive * Fix: Only delete Multipart tmp files after rules have run * Fixed MatchedVar on chained rules * Fix IP address logging in Section A * Fix: rx: exit after full match (remove /g emulation); ensure capture groups occuring after unused groups still populate TX vars * Fix rule-update-target for non-regex * Fix Security Impacting Issues: * Handle URI received with uri-fragment, CVE-2020-15598 update to 3.0.4: * Fix: audit log data omitted when nolog,auditlog * Fix: ModSecurity 3.x inspectFile operator does not pass * XML: Remove error messages from stderr * Filter comment or blank line for pmFromFile operator * Additional adjustment to Cookie header parsing * Restore chained rule part H logging to be more like 2.9 behaviour * Small fixes in log messages to help debugging the file upload * Fix Cookie header parsing issues * Fix rules with nolog are logging to part H * Fix argument key-value pair parsing cases * Fix: audit log part for response body for JSON format to be E * Make surem_rulesMessages is filled after successfull match * Fix @pm lookup for possible matches on offset zero. * Regex lookup on the key name instead of COLLECTION:key * Missing throw in Operator::instantiate * Making block action execution dependent of the SecEngine status * Making block action execution dependent of the SecEngine status * Having body limits to respect the rule engine state * Fix SecRuleUpdateTargetById does not match regular expressions * Adds missing check for runtime ctl:ruleRemoveByTag * Adds a new operator verifySVNR that checks for Austrian social security numbers. * Fix variables output in debug logs * Correct typo validade in log output * fix/minor: Error encoding hexa decimal. * Limit more log variables to 200 characters. * parser: fix parsed file names * Allow empty anchored variable * Fixed FILES_NAMES collection after the end of multipart parsing * Fixed validateByteRange parsing method * Removes a memory leak on the JSON parser * Enables LMDB on the regression tests. * Fix: Extra whitespace in some configuration directives causing error * Refactoring on Regex and SMatch classes. * Fixed buffer overflow in Utils::Md5::hexdigest() * Implemented merge() method for ConfigInt, ConfigDouble, ConfigString * Adds initially support to the drop action. * Complete merging of particular rule properties * Replaces AC_CHECK_FILE with 'test -f' * Fix inet addr handling on 64 bit big endian systems * Fix tests on FreeBSD * Changes ENV test case to read the default MODSECURTIY env var * Regression: Sets MODSECURITY env var during the tests execution * Fix setenv action to strdup key=variable * Allow 0 length JSON requests. * Fix "make dist" target to include default configuration * Replaced log locking using mutex with fcntl lock * Correct the usage of modsecurity::Phases::NUMBER_OF_PHASES * Adds support to multiple ranges in ctl:ruleRemoveById * Rule variable interpolation broken * Makethe boundary check less strict as per RFC2046 * Fix buffer size for utf8toUnicode transformation * Fix double macros bug * Override the default status code if not suitable to redirect action * parser: Fix the support for CRLF configuration files * Organizes the server logs * m_lineNumber in Rule not mapping with the correct line number in file * Using shared_ptr instead of unique_ptr on rules exceptions * Changes debuglogs schema to avoid unecessary str allocation * Fix the SecUnicodeMapFile and SecUnicodeCodePage * Changes the timing to save the rule message * Fix crash in msc_rules_add_file() when using disruptive action in chain * Fix memory leak in AuditLog::init() * Fix RulesProperties::appendRules() * Fix RULE lookup in chained rules * @ipMatch "Could not add entry" on slash/32 notation in 2.9.0 * Using values after transformation at MATCHED_VARS * Adds support to UpdateActionById. * Add correct C function prototypes for msc_init and msc_create_rule_set * Allow LuaJIT 2.1 to be used * Match m_id JSON log with RuleMessage and v2 format * Adds support to setenv action. * Adds new transaction constructor that accepts the transaction id as parameter. * Adds request IDs and URIs to the debug log * Treating variables exception on load-time instead of run time. * Fix: function m.setvar in Lua scripts and add testcases * Fix SecResponseBodyAccess and ctl:requestBodyAccess directives * Fix OpenBSD build * Fix parser to support GeoLookup with MaxMind * parser: Fix simple quote setvar in the end of the line * Fix pc file * modsec_rules_check: uses the gnu `.la' instead of `.a' file * good practices: Initialize variables before use it * Fix utf-8 character encoding conversion * Adds support for ctl:requestBodyProcessor=URLENCODED * Add LUA compatibility for CentOS and try to use LuaJIT first if available * Allow LuaJIT to be used * Implement support for Lua 5.1 * Variable names must match fully, notpartially. Match should be case insensitive. * Improves the performance while loading the rules * Allow empty strings to be evaluated by regex::searchAll * Adds basic pkg-config info * Fixed LMDB collection errors * Fixed false positive MULTIPART_UNMATCHED_BOUNDARY errors * Fix ip tree lookup on netmask content * Changes the behavior of the default sec actions * Refactoring on {global,ip,resources,session,tx,user} collections * Fix race condition in UniqueId::uniqueId() * Fix memory leak in error message for msc_rules_merge C APIs * Return false in SharedFiles::open() when an error happens * Use rvalue reference in ModSecurity::serverLog * Build System: Fix when multiple lines for curl version. * Checks if response body inspection is enabled before process it * Fix setvar parsing of quoted data * Adds time stamp back to the audit logs * Disables skip counter if debug log is disabled * Cosmetics: Represents amount of skipped rules without decimal * Add missing escapeSeqDecode, urlEncode and trimLeft/Right tfns to parser * Fix STATUS var parsing and accept STATUS_LINE var for v2 backward comp. * Fix memory leak in modsecurity::utils::expandEnv() * Initialize m_dtd member in ValidateDTD class as NULL * Fix broken @detectxss operator regression test case * Fix utils::string::ssplit() to handle delimiter in the end of string * Fix variable FILES_TMPNAMES * Fix memory leak in Collections * Fix lib version information while generating the .so file * Adds support for ctl:ruleRemoveByTag * Fix SecUploadDir configuration merge * Include all prerequisites for "make check" into dist archive * Fix: Reverse logic of checking output in @inspectFile * Adds support to libMaxMind * Adds capture action to detectXSS * Temporarily accept invalid MULTIPART_SEMICOLON_MISSING operator * Adds capture action to detectSQLi * Adds capture action to rbl * Adds capture action to verifyCC * Adds capture action to verifySSN * Adds capture action to verifyCPF * Prettier error messages for unsupported configurations (UX) * Add missing verify*** transformation statements to parser * Fix a set of compilation warnings * Check for disruptive action on SecDefaultAction. * Fix block-block infinite loop. * Correction remove_by_tag and remove_by_msg logic. * Fix LMDB compile error * Fix msc_who_am_i() to return pointer to a valid C string * Added some cosmetics to autoconf related code * Fix "make dist" target to include necessary headers for Lua * Fix "include /foo/*.conf" for single matched object in directory * Add missing Base64 transformation statements to parser * Fixed resource load on ip match from file * Fixed examples compilation while using disable-shared * Fixed compilation issue while xml is disabled * Having LDADD and LDFLAGS organized on Makefile.am * Checking std::deque size before use it * perf improvement: Added the concept of RunTimeString and removed all run time parser. * perf improvement: Checks debuglog level before format debug msg * perf. improvement/rx: Only compute dynamic regex in case of macro * Fix uri on the benchmark utility * disable Lua on systems with liblua5.1 Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP5: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2023-257=1 Package List: - openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP5 (aarch64 i586 ppc64le s390x x86_64): libmodsecurity3-3.0.10-bp155.3.3.1 modsecurity-3.0.10-bp155.3.3.1 modsecurity-devel-3.0.10-bp155.3.3.1 - openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP5 (aarch64_ilp32): libmodsecurity3-64bit-3.0.10-bp155.3.3.1 - openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP5 (x86_64): libmodsecurity3-32bit-3.0.10-bp155.3.3.1 References: https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15598.html https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-42717.html https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-28882.html https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38285.html https://bugzilla.suse.com/1210993 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1213702 . The latest patch for modsecurity on openSUSE resolves segmentation faults and improves security protocols in system modules.. Modsecurity Update, OpenSUSE Segfault Fix, Security Enhancements, Thre at Mitigation. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 25, 2023
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