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INFORMATION BULLETIN
Apache 2.0.46 Release Fixes Security Vulnerabilities
[Apache 2.0.46 Released]
May 29, 2003 12:00 GMT Number N-099
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PROBLEM: There exist two security vulnerabilities:
1) Apache 2.0 versions 2.0.37 through 2.0.45 can be caused to
crash in certain circumstances. This can be triggered remotely
through mod_dav and possibly other mechanisms.
2) Apache 2.0 versions 2.0.40 through 2.0.45 on Unix platforms
were vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack on the basic
authentication module.
SOFTWARE: Apache 2.0 versions 2.0.37 through 2.0.45
DAMAGE: Remotely crash Apache or cause a denial-of-service attack.
SOLUTION: Upgrade to Apache 2.0.46
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VULNERABILITY The risk is MEDIUM. These vulnerabilities may cause a
ASSESSMENT: denial-of-service.
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LINKS:
CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/n-099.shtml
ORIGINAL BULLETIN: http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/Announcement2.html
PATCHES: http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi
ADDITIONAL LINKS: RED HAT RHSA-2003:186-06:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-186.html
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[***** Start Apache 2.0.46 Released *****]
Apache 2.0.46 Released
The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache HTTP Server Project are pleased
to announce the ninth public release of the Apache 2.0 HTTP Server. This
Announcement notes the significant changes in 2.0.46 as compared to 2.0.45.
This version of Apache is principally a security and bug fix release. A summary
of the bug fixes is given at the end of this document. Of particular note is
that 2.0.46 addresses two security vulnerabilities:
Apache 2.0 versions 2.0.37 through 2.0.45 can be caused to crash in certain
circumstances. This can be triggered remotely through mod_dav and possibly
other mechanisms. The crash was originally reported by David Endler
<DEndler@iDefense.com> and was researched and fixed by Joe Orton
<jorton@redhat.com>. Specific details and an analysis of the crash will be
published Friday, May 30. No more specific information is disclosed at this
time, but all Apache 2.0 users are encouraged to upgrade now.
[http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2003-0245]
Apache 2.0 versions 2.0.40 through 2.0.45 on Unix platforms were vulnerable
to a denial-of-service attack on the basic authentication module, which was
reported by John Hughes <john.hughes@entegrity.com>. A bug in the configuration
scripts caused the apr_password_validate() function to be thread-unsafe on
platforms with crypt_r(), including AIX and Linux. All versions of Apache 2.0
have this thread-safety problem on platforms with no crypt_r() and no
thread-safe crypt(), such as Mac OS X and possibly others. When using a
threaded MPM (which is not the default on these platforms), this allows
remote attackers to create a denial of service which causes valid usernames
and passwords for Basic Authentication to fail until Apache is restarted. We
do not believe this bug could allow unauthorized users to gain access to
protected resources.
[http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2003-0189]
The Apache Software Foundation would like to thank David Endler and John Hughes
for the responsible reporting of these issues.
This release is compatible with modules compiled for 2.0.42 and later versions.
We consider this release to be the best version of Apache available and
encourage users of all prior versions to upgrade.
Apache 2.0.46 is available for download from
http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi
Please see the CHANGES_2.0 file, linked from the above page, for a full list
of changes.
Apache 2.0 offers numerous enhancements, improvements, and performance boosts
over the 1.3 codebase. For an overview of new features introduced after 1.3
please see
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/new_features_2_0.html
When upgrading or installing this version of Apache, please keep in mind the
following:
If you intend to use Apache with one of the threaded MPMs, you must ensure that
the modules (and the libraries they depend on) that you will be using are
thread-safe. Please contact the vendors of these modules to obtain this
information.
Apache 2.0.46 Major changes
Security vulnerabilities closed since Apache 2.0.45
* SECURITY [CAN-2003-0245]: Fixed a bug that could be triggered remotely through
mod_dav and possibly other mechanisms, causing an Apache child process to crash.
The crash was first reported by David Endler <DEndler@iDefense.com> and was
researched and fixed by Joe Orton <jorton@redhat.com>. Details will be released
on 30 May 2003.
* SECURITY [CAN-2003-0189]: Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting
basic authentication on Unix platforms related to thread-safety in
apr_password_validate(). The problem was reported by John Hughes
<john.hughes@entegrity.com>
Bugs fixed and features added since Apache 2.0.45
* Fix for mod_dav. Call the 'can_be_activity' callback, if provided, when a
MKACTIVITY request comes in. [Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net>]
* Perform run-time query in apxs for apr and apr-util's includes.
[Justin Erenkrantz]
* run libtool from the apr install directory (in case that is different from the
apache install directory) [Jeff Trawick]
* configure.in: Play nice with libtool-1.5. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
* If mod_mime_magic does not know the content-type, do not attempt to guess.
PR 16908. [Andrew Gapon <agapon@telcordia.com>]
* ssl session caching(shmht) : Fix a SEGV problem with SHMHT session caching.
PR 17864. [Andreas Leimbacher <andreasl67@yahoo.de>, Madhusudan Mathihalli]
* Add a delete flag to htpasswd. [Thom May]
* Fix mod_rewrite's handling of absolute URIs. The escaping routines now work
scheme dependent and the query string will only be appended if supported by the
particular scheme. [André Malo]
* Add another check for already compressed content in mod_deflate. PR 19913.
[Tsuyoshi SASAMOTO <nazonazo@super.win.ne.jp>]
* Fixes for VPATH builds; copying special.mk and any future .mk files from the
source tree as well as the build tree (now creates a usable configuration for
apxs), and eliminated redundant -I'nclude paths. [William Rowe]
* Code fixes, constness corrections and ssl_toolkit_compat.h updates for SSLC and
OpenSSL toolkit compatibility. Still work remains to be done to cripple features
based on the limitations of RSA's binary distribution of their SSL-C toolkit.
[William Rowe, Madhusudan Mathihalli, Jeff Trawick]
* Linux 2.4+: If Apache is started as root and you code CoreDumpDirectory, coredumps
are enabled via the prctl() syscall. [Greg Ames]
* ap_get_mime_headers_core: allocate space for the trailing null when folding is in
effect. PR 18170 [Peter Mayne <PeterMayne@SPAM_SUX.ap.spherion.com>]
* Fix --enable-mods-shared=most and other variants. [Aaron Bannert]
* mod_log_config: Add the ability to log the id of the thread processing the request
via new %P formats. [Jeff Trawick]
* Use appropriate language codes for Czech (cs) and Traditional Chinese (zh-tw) in
default config files. PR 9427. [André Malo]
* mod_auth_ldap: Use generic whitespace character class when parsing "require"
directives, instead of literal spaces only. PR 17135. [André Malo]
* Hook mod_rewrite's type checker before mod_mime's one. That way the RewriteRule
[T=...] Flag should work as expected now. PR 19626. [André Malo]
* htpasswd: Check the processed file on validity. If a line is not empty and not a
comment, it must contain at least one colon. Otherwise exit with error code 7.
[Kris Verbeeck <Kris.Verbeeck@ubizen.com>, Thom May]
* Fix a problem that caused httpd to be linked with incorrect flags on some platforms
when mod_so was enabled by default, breaking DSOs on AIX. PR 19012 [Jeff Trawick]
* By default, use the same CC and CPP with which APR was built. The user can override
with CC and CPP environment variables. [Jeff Trawick]
* Fix ap_construct_url() so that it surrounds IPv6 literal address strings with [].
This fixes certain types of redirection. PR 19207. [Jeff Trawick]
* forward port of buffer overflow fixes for htdigest. [Thom May]
* Added AllowEncodedSlashes directive to permit control of whether the server will
accept encoded slashes ('%2f') in the URI path. Default condition is off (the
historical behaviour). This permits environments in which the path-info needs to
contain encoded slashes. PR 543, 2389, 3581, 3589, 5687, 7066, 7865, 14639. [Ken Coar]
* When using Redirect in directory context, append requested query string if there's no
one supplied by configuration. PR 10961. [André Malo]
* Unescape the supplied wildcard pattern in mod_autoindex. Otherwise the pattern will
not always match as desired. PR 12596. [André Malo]
* mod_autoindex now emits and accepts modern query string parameter delimiters (;).
Thus column headers no longer contain unescaped ampersands. PR 10880 [André Malo]
* Enable ap_sock_disable_nagle for Windows. This along with the addition of
APR_TCP_NODELAY_INHERITED to apr.hw will cause Nagle to be disabled for Windows.
[Allan Edwards]
* Correct a mis-correlation between mpm_common.c and mpm_common.h; This patch reverts
us to pre-2.0.46 behavior, using the ap_sock_disable_nagle noop macro, because
ap_sock_disable_nagle was never compiled on Win32. [Allan Edwards, William Rowe]
* Fix a build problem with passing unsupported --enable-layout args to apr and apr-util.
This broke binbuild.sh as well as user-specified layout parameters. PR 18649
[Justin Erenkrantz, Jeff Trawick]
* If a Date response header was already set in the headers array, this value was ignored
in favour of the current time. This meant that Date headers on proxied requests where
rewritten when they should not have been. PR: 14376 [Graham Leggett]
* Add code to buildconf that produces an httpd.spec file from httpd.spec.in, using
build/get-version.sh from APR. [Graham Leggett]
* Fixed a segfault when multiple ProxyBlock directives were used. PR: 19023
[Sami Tikka <sami.tikka@f-secure.com>]
* SECURITY [CAN-2003-0134] OS2: Fix a Denial of Service vulnerability identified and
reported by Robert Howard <rihoward@rawbw.com> that where device names faulted the
running OS2 worker process. The fix is actually in APR 0.9.4. [Brian Havard]
* Forward port: Escape special characters (especially control characters) in
mod_log_config to make a clear distinction between client-supplied strings (with
special characters) and server-side strings. This was already introduced in
version 1.3.25. [André Malo]
* mod_deflate: Check also err_headers_out for an already set Content-Encoding: gzip
header. This prevents gzip compressed content from a CGI script from being compressed
once more. PR 17797. [André Malo]
[***** End Apache 2.0.46 Released *****]
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the information contained in this bulletin.
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