Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : apache vulnerability (USN-160-2)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 20566

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

USN-160-1 fixed two vulnerabilities in the Apache 2 server. The old Apache 1 server was also vulnerable to one of the vulnerabilities (CAN-2005-2088). Please note that Apache 1 is not officially supported in Ubuntu (it is in the 'universe' component of the archive).

For reference, this is the relevant part of the original advisory :

Watchfire discovered that Apache insufficiently verified the 'Transfer-Encoding' and 'Content-Length' headers when acting as an HTTP proxy. By sending a specially crafted HTTP request, a remote attacker who is authorized to use the proxy could exploit this to bypass web application firewalls, poison the HTTP proxy cache, and conduct cross-site scripting attacks against other proxy users.
(CAN-2005-2088).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 20566

File Name: ubuntu_USN-160-2.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks

Published: 1/15/2006

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:apache, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:apache-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:apache-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:apache-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:apache-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:apache-perl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:apache-ssl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:apache-utils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libapache-mod-perl, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/7/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/6/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2088

USN: 160-2

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