openSUSE Security Update: apache2: fixed various security bugs ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2012:0314-1 Rating: important References: #728876 #738855 #741243 #743743 Cross-References: CVE-2007-6750 CVE-2012-0031 CVE-2012-0053 Affected Products: openSUSE 11.4 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available. Description: This update of apache2 fixes regressions and several security problems: bnc#728876, fix graceful reload bnc#741243, CVE-2012-0031: Fixed a scoreboard corruption (shared mem segment) by child causes crash of privileged parent (invalid free()) during shutdown. bnc#743743, CVE-2012-0053: Fixed an issue in error responses that could expose "httpOnly" cookies when no custom ErrorDocument is specified for status code 400". bnc#738855, 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. Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE 11.4: zypper in -t patch apache2-201202-5821 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE 11.4 (i586 x86_64): apache2-2.2.17-4.13.1 apache2-devel-2.2.17-4.13.1 apache2-example-certificates-2.2.17-4.13.1 apache2-example-pages-2.2.17-4.13.1 apache2-itk-2.2.17-4.13.1 apache2-prefork-2.2.17-4.13.1 apache2-utils-2.2.17-4.13.1 apache2-worker-2.2.17-4.13.1 - openSUSE 11.4 (noarch): apache2-doc-2.2.17-4.13.1 References: http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-6750.html http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0031.html http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0053.html https://bugzilla.novell.com/728876 https://bugzilla.novell.com/738855 https://bugzilla.novell.com/741243 https://bugzilla.novell.com/743743