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CentOS Linux: CVE-2017-9798: Moderate: httpd security update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Sep 18, 2017
Added
Oct 12, 2017
Modified
May 25, 2023

Description

Apache httpd allows remote attackers to read secret data from process memory if the Limit directive can be set in a user's .htaccess file, or if httpd.conf has certain misconfigurations, aka Optionsbleed. This affects the Apache HTTP Server through 2.2.34 and 2.4.x through 2.4.27. The attacker sends an unauthenticated OPTIONS HTTP request when attempting to read secret data. This is a use-after-free issue and thus secret data is not always sent, and the specific data depends on many factors including configuration. Exploitation with .htaccess can be blocked with a patch to the ap_limit_section function in server/core.c.

Solutions

centos-upgrade-httpdcentos-upgrade-httpd-debuginfocentos-upgrade-httpd-develcentos-upgrade-httpd-manualcentos-upgrade-httpd-toolscentos-upgrade-mod_ldapcentos-upgrade-mod_proxy_htmlcentos-upgrade-mod_sessioncentos-upgrade-mod_ssl

References

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