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Debian: CVE-2018-17199: apache2 -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2018-17199: apache2 -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
01/30/2019
Created
03/19/2019
Added
02/20/2019
Modified
02/18/2020

Description

In Apache HTTP Server 2.4 release 2.4.37 and prior, mod_session checks the session expiry time before decoding the session. This causes session expiry time to be ignored for mod_session_cookie sessions since the expiry time is loaded when the session is decoded.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-apache2

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