SUSE SLES11 Security Update : apache2 (SUSE-SU-2015:1885-2)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 86709

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Apache was updated to fix one security vulnerability and two bugs.

Following security issue was fixed.

- Fix the chunked transfer coding implementation in the Apache (bsc#938728, CVE-2015-3183)

Bugs fixed :

- add SSLSessionTickets directive (bsc#941676)

- hardcode modules %files (bsc#444878)

- only enable the port 443 for TCP protocol, not UDP.
(bsc#931002)

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

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Studio Onsite 1.3 :

zypper in -t patch slestso13-apache2-12181=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch sdksp4-apache2-12181=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sdksp3-apache2-12181=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMWare 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-apache2-12181=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch slessp4-apache2-12181=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-apache2-12181=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-apache2-12181=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp3-apache2-12181=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 86709

File Name: suse_SU-2015-1885-2.nasl

Version: 2.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 11/3/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, 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:novell:suse_linux:apache2-prefork, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apache2-utils, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apache2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apache2-doc, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apache2-worker, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apache2-example-pages

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/1/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/20/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3183

BID: 75963

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