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GLSA-200907-02 : ModSecurity: Denial of Service

high Nessus Plugin ID 39596

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200907-02 (ModSecurity: Denial of Service)

 Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in ModSecurity:
 Juan Galiana Lara of ISecAuditors discovered a NULL pointer dereference when processing multipart requests without a part header name (CVE-2009-1902).
 Steve Grubb of Red Hat reported that the 'PDF XSS protection' feature does not properly handle HTTP requests to a PDF file that do not use the GET method (CVE-2009-1903).
 Impact :

 A remote attacker might send requests containing specially crafted multipart data or send certain requests to access a PDF file, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service (crash) of the Apache HTTP daemon.
 NOTE: The PDF XSS protection is not enabled by default.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All ModSecurity users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=www-apache/mod_security-2.5.9'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200907-02

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 39596

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200907-02.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Published: 7/3/2009

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:mod_security, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/2/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1902, CVE-2009-1903

BID: 34096

CWE: 16

GLSA: 200907-02