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Debian DSA-131-1 : apache - remote DoS / exploit

high Nessus Plugin ID 14968

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Mark Litchfield found a denial of service attack in the Apache web-server. While investigating the problem the Apache Software Foundation discovered that the code for handling invalid requests which use chunked encoding also might allow arbitrary code execution on 64 bit architectures.

Solution

This has been fixed in version 1.3.9-14.1 of the Debian apache package, as well as upstream versions 1.3.26 and 2.0.37. We strongly recommend that you upgrade your apache package immediately.

The package upgrade does not restart the apache server automatically, this will have to be done manually. Please make sure your configuration is correct ('apachectl configtest' will verify that for you) and restart it using '/etc/init.d/apache restart'

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-131

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 14968

File Name: debian_DSA-131.nasl

Version: 1.30

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:apache, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:2.2

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/19/2002

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/19/2002

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Apache Win32 Chunked Encoding)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2002-0392

BID: 5033

CERT: 944335

DSA: 131