openSUSE Security Update: update for apache2 ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2014:1045-1 Rating: moderate References: #869105 #869106 #887765 #887768 Cross-References: CVE-2013-6438 CVE-2014-0098 CVE-2014-0226 CVE-2014-0231 Affected Products: openSUSE 12.3 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available. Description: This apache2 update fixes the following security issues: - CRIME types of attack, based on size and timing analysis of compressed content, are now mitigated by the new SSLCompression directive, set to "no" in /etc/apache2/ssl-global.conf - ssl-global.conf: SSLHonorCipherOrder set to on - SSLCipherSuite updates to vhosts.d/vhost-ssl.template and apache2-default-vhost-ssl.conf - 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. (bnc#887768, CVE-2014-0231) - 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. (bnc#887765, CVE-2014-0226) - fixed improperly handled whitespace characters in CDATA sections of requests to mod_dav can lead to a crash, resulting in a DoS against the server. (bnc#869105, CVE-2013-6438) - fix for crash in parsing cookie content, resulting in a DoS against the server. (bnc#869106, CVE-2014-0098) Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE 12.3: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2014-502 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE 12.3 (i586 x86_64): apache2-2.2.22-10.12.1 apache2-debuginfo-2.2.22-10.12.1 apache2-debugsource-2.2.22-10.12.1 apache2-devel-2.2.22-10.12.1 apache2-event-2.2.22-10.12.1 apache2-event-debuginfo-2.2.22-10.12.1 apache2-example-pages-2.2.22-10.12.1 apache2-itk-2.2.22-10.12.1 apache2-itk-debuginfo-2.2.22-10.12.1 apache2-prefork-2.2.22-10.12.1 apache2-prefork-debuginfo-2.2.22-10.12.1 apache2-utils-2.2.22-10.12.1 apache2-utils-debuginfo-2.2.22-10.12.1 apache2-worker-2.2.22-10.12.1 apache2-worker-debuginfo-2.2.22-10.12.1 - openSUSE 12.3 (noarch): apache2-doc-2.2.22-10.12.1 References: http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6438.html http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0098.html http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0226.html http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0231.html https://bugzilla.novell.com/869105 https://bugzilla.novell.com/869106 https://bugzilla.novell.com/887765 https://bugzilla.novell.com/887768