Advisories » MGASA-2017-0298

Updated apache packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 24 Aug 2017
Modification date: 24 Aug 2017
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 6
CVE: CVE-2017-9788 , CVE-2017-9789

Description

In Apache httpd before 2.4.27, the value placeholder in
[Proxy-]Authorization headers of type 'Digest' was not initialized or
reset before or between successive key=value assignments by
mod_auth_digest. Providing an initial key with no '=' assignment could
reflect the stale value of uninitialized pool memory used by the prior
request, leading to leakage of potentially confidential information, and
a segfault in other cases resulting in denial of service
(CVE-2017-9788).

When under stress, closing many connections, the HTTP/2 handling code in
Apache httpd 2.4.26 would sometimes access memory after it has been
freed, resulting in potentially erratic behavior (CVE-2017-9789).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21500
• https://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html
• http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/Announcement2.4.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9788
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9789

SRPMS

6/core

• apache-2.4.27-1.mga6