Fedora 8 : httpd-2.2.9-1.fc8 (2008-6314)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 33839

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update includes the latest release of httpd 2.2. A security issue is fixed in this update: A flaw was found in the handling of excessive interim responses from an origin server when using mod_proxy_http. In a forward proxy configuration, if a user of the proxy could be tricked into visiting a malicious web server, the proxy could be forced into consuming a large amount of stack or heap memory. This could lead to an eventual process crash due to stack space exhaustion.

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

Solution

Update the affected httpd package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451615

http://www.nessus.org/u?9b262ff6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 33839

File Name: fedora_2008-6314.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/8/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:httpd, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/7/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-2364

BID: 29653

CWE: 399

FEDORA: 2008-6314