CentOS 4 / 5 : httpd (CESA-2011:1392)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 56570

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VPR Score: 4.2

Synopsis

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

Description

Updated httpd packages that fix one security issue and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

The Apache HTTP Server is a popular web server.

It was discovered that the Apache HTTP Server did not properly validate the request URI for proxied requests. In certain configurations, if a reverse proxy used the ProxyPassMatch directive, or if it used the RewriteRule directive with the proxy flag, a remote attacker could make the proxy connect to an arbitrary server, possibly disclosing sensitive information from internal web servers not directly accessible to the attacker. (CVE-2011-3368)

Red Hat would like to thank Context Information Security for reporting this issue.

This update also fixes the following bug :

* The fix for CVE-2011-3192 provided by the RHSA-2011:1245 update introduced regressions in the way httpd handled certain Range HTTP header values. This update corrects those regressions. (BZ#736593, BZ#736594)

All httpd users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. After installing the updated packages, the httpd daemon must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Solution

Update the affected httpd packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 56570

File Name: centos_RHSA-2011-1392.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 10/21/2011

Updated: 1/4/2021

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

Risk Factor: Medium

VPR Score: 4.2

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

Temporal Vector: E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:httpd, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:httpd-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:httpd-manual, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:httpd-suexec, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mod_ssl, cpe:/o:centos:centos:4, cpe:/o:centos:centos:5

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/9/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/5/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3368

BID: 49957

RHSA: 2011:1392