openSUSE Security Update : apache2 (openSUSE-SU-2014:1044-1)
Medium Nessus Plugin ID 77292
Synopsis
The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
Description
This apache2 update fixes the following security issues :
- fix for crash in mod_proxy processing specially crafted requests with reverse proxy configurations that results in a crash and a DoS condition for the server.
CVE-2014-0117
- new config option CGIDScriptTimeout set to 60s in new file conf.d/cgid-timeout.conf, preventing worker processes hanging forever if a cgi launched from them has stopped reading input from the server (DoS).
CVE-2014-0231
- Fix for a NULL pointer dereference in mod_cache that causes a crash in caching forwarding configurations, resulting in a DoS condition. CVE-2013-4352
- fix for crash in parsing cookie content, resulting in a DoS against the server CVE-2014-0098
- fix for mod_status race condition in scoreboard handling and consecutive heap overflow and information disclosure if access to mod_status is granted to a potential attacker. CVE-2014-0226
- fix for improper handling of whitespace characters from CDATA sections to mod_dav, leading to a crash and a DoS condition of the apache server process CVE-2013-6438
Solution
Update the affected apache2 packages.