SUSE SLES12 Security Update : apache2 (SUSE-SU-2017:0797-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 97912

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for apache2 fixes the following security issues: Security issues fixed :

- CVE-2016-0736: Protect mod_session_crypto data with a MAC to prevent padding oracle attacks (bsc#1016712).

- CVE-2016-2161: Malicious input to mod_auth_digest could have caused the server to crash, resulting in DoS (bsc#1016714).

- CVE-2016-8743: Added new directive 'HttpProtocolOptions Strict' to avoid proxy chain misinterpretation (bsc#1016715). Bugfixes :

- Add missing copy of hcuri and hcexpr from the worker to the health check worker (bsc#1019380).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP2-2017-450=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-RPI-12-SP2-2017-450=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2017-450=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1016712

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1016714

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1016715

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1019380

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0736/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2161/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-8743/

http://www.nessus.org/u?d42a4943

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 97912

File Name: suse_SU-2017-0797-1.nasl

Version: 3.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/23/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apache2-prefork-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apache2-utils, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apache2-utils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apache2-worker, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apache2-worker-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apache2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apache2-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apache2-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apache2-example-pages, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apache2-prefork

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/22/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/27/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-0736, CVE-2016-2161, CVE-2016-8743