SUSE SLES10 Security Update : apache2 (SUSE-SU-2013:0469-1)
Medium Nessus Plugin ID 83578
Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
This Apache2 LTSS roll-up update for SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP3 LTSS fixes the following security issues and bugs :
- CVE-2012-4557: Denial of Service via special requests in mod_proxy_ajp
- CVE-2012-0883: improper LD_LIBRARY_PATH handling
- CVE-2012-2687: filename escaping problem
- CVE-2012-0031: Fixed a scoreboard corruption (shared mem segment) by child causes crash of privileged parent (invalid free()) during shutdown.
- CVE-2012-0053: Fixed an issue in error responses that could expose 'httpOnly' cookies when no custom ErrorDocument is specified for status code 400'.
- The SSL configuration template has been adjusted not to suggested weak ciphers CVE-2007-6750: The 'mod_reqtimeout' module was backported from Apache 2.2.21 to help mitigate the 'Slowloris' Denial of Service attack.
You need to enable the 'mod_reqtimeout' module in your existing apache configuration to make it effective, e.g.
in the APACHE_MODULES line in /etc/sysconfig/apache2.
- CVE-2011-3639, CVE-2011-3368, CVE-2011-4317: This update also includes several fixes for a mod_proxy reverse exposure via RewriteRule or ProxyPassMatch directives.
- CVE-2011-1473: Fixed the SSL renegotiation DoS by disabling renegotiation by default.
- CVE-2011-3607: Integer overflow in ap_pregsub function resulting in a heap-based buffer overflow could potentially allow local attackers to gain privileges
Additionally, some non-security bugs have been fixed which are listed in the changelog file.
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
Update the affected apache2 packages