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openSUSE Security Update: apache2: fixed various security bugs
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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
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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

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