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Debian DLA-284-1 : apache2 security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 85051

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

A vulnerability has been found in the Apache HTTP Server.

CVE-2015-3183

Apache HTTP Server did not properly parse chunk headers, which allowed remote attackers to conduct HTTP request smuggling via a crafted request. This flaw relates to mishandling of large chunk-size values and invalid chunk-extension characters in modules/http/http_filters.c.

For the squeeze distribution, these issues have been fixed in version 2.2.16-6+squeeze15 of apache2.

We recommend you to upgrade your apache2 packages.

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

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/07/msg00024.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/apache2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 85051

File Name: debian_DLA-284.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/29/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:apache2-mpm-prefork, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:apache2-suexec-custom, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:apache2-suexec, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:apache2.2-bin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:apache2-mpm-itk, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:apache2-mpm-worker, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:apache2-utils, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:apache2-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:apache2.2-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:apache2-mpm-event, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:apache2-prefork-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:apache2-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:apache2-threaded-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:apache2

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/28/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3183

BID: 75963