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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-8011: Security patch for httpd (ALAS-2018-1062)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-8011: Security patch for httpd (ALAS-2018-1062)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/18/2018
Created
05/08/2020
Added
04/27/2020
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

By specially crafting HTTP requests, the mod_md challenge handler would dereference a NULL pointer and cause the child process to segfault. This could be used to DoS the server. Fixed in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.34 (Affected 2.4.33).

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-httpd
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-httpd-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-httpd-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-httpd-filesystem
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-httpd-manual
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-httpd-tools
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-mod_ldap
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-mod_md
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-mod_proxy_html
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-mod_session
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-mod_ssl

References

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