openSUSE 10 Security Update : apache2 (apache2-4666)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 28282

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Several bugs were fixed in the Apache2 webserver :

These include the following security issues :

- CVE-2006-5752: mod_status: Fix a possible XSS attack against a site with a public server-status page and ExtendedStatus enabled, for browsers which perform charset 'detection'.

- CVE-2007-1863: mod_cache: Prevent a segmentation fault if attributes are listed in a Cache-Control header without any value.

- CVE-2007-3304: prefork, worker, event MPMs: Ensure that the parent process cannot be forced to kill processes outside its process group.

- CVE-2007-3847: mod_proxy: Prevent reading past the end of a buffer when parsing date-related headers. PR 41144.

- CVE-2007-4465: mod_autoindex: Add in ContentType and Charset options to IndexOptions directive. This allows the admin to explicitly set the content-type and charset of the generated page.

and the following non-security issues :

- get_module_list: replace loadmodule.conf atomically

- Use File::Temp to create good tmpdir in logresolve.pl2 (httpd-2.x.x-logresolve.patchs)

Solution

Update the affected apache2 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 28282

File Name: suse_apache2-4666.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 11/20/2007

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:apache2-devel, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:apache2-prefork, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:apache2-worker, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:apache2-utils, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:apache2, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:apache2-example-pages

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 11/9/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-5752, CVE-2007-1863, CVE-2007-3304, CVE-2007-3847, CVE-2007-4465

CWE: 79

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