SUSE SLES12 Security Update : apache2 (SUSE-SU-2019:0889-1)
high Nessus Plugin ID 123823
New! Plugin Severity Now Using CVSS v3
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Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.Description
This update for apache2 fixes the following issues :Security issues fixed :
CVE-2018-17199: A bug in Apache's 'mod_session_cookie' lead to an issue where the module did not respect a cookie's expiry time.
[bsc#1122839]
CVE-2019-0220: The Apache HTTP server did not use a consistent strategy for URL normalization throughout all of its components. In particular, consecutive slashes were not always collapsed. Attackers could potentially abuse these inconsistencies to by-pass access control mechanisms and thus gain unauthorized access to protected parts of the service. [bsc#1131241]
CVE-2019-0217: A race condition in Apache's 'mod_auth_digest' when running in a threaded server could have allowed users with valid credentials to authenticate using another username, bypassing configured access control restrictions. [bsc#1131239]
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 the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2019-889=1
See Also
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1122839
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1131239
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1131241
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17199/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-0217/
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 123823
File Name: suse_SU-2019-0889-1.nasl
Version: 1.4
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 4/8/2019
Updated: 1/23/2020
Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl
Risk Information
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-0217
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.7
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6
Temporal Score: 4.4
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC:C
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 6.5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: 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, 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
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 4/5/2019
Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/30/2019