openSUSE Security Update : apache2 (openSUSE-2018-1046)

high Nessus Plugin ID 117789

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for apache2 fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

 - CVE-2016-8743: Fixed liberal whitespace interpretation accepted from requests and sent in response lines and headers. Accepting these different behaviors represented a security concern when httpd participates in any chain of proxies or interacts with back-end application servers, either through mod_proxy or using conventional CGI mechanisms, and may result in request smuggling, response splitting and cache pollution. (bsc#1016715)

 - CVE-2016-4975: Fixed possible CRLF injection allowing HTTP response splitting attacks for sites which use mod_userdir. This issue was mitigated by changes which prohibit CR or LF injection into the 'Location' or other outbound header key or value. (bsc#1104826) This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected apache2 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1016715

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1104826

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 117789

File Name: openSUSE-2018-1046.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/27/2018

Updated: 1/19/2021

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:2.3:o:novell:opensuse:42.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:novell:opensuse:apache2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:novell:opensuse:apache2-debuginfo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:novell:opensuse:apache2-debugsource:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:novell:opensuse:apache2-devel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:novell:opensuse:apache2-event:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:novell:opensuse:apache2-event-debuginfo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:novell:opensuse:apache2-example-pages:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:novell:opensuse:apache2-prefork:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:novell:opensuse:apache2-prefork-debuginfo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:novell:opensuse:apache2-utils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:novell:opensuse:apache2-utils-debuginfo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:novell:opensuse:apache2-worker:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:novell:opensuse:apache2-worker-debuginfo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/25/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-4975, CVE-2016-8743