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Posted to cvs@httpd.apache.org by bu...@apache.org on 2016/12/21 18:24:36 UTC
svn commit: r1003242 - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./
security/vulnerabilities-httpd.xml security/vulnerabilities_24.html
Author: buildbot
Date: Wed Dec 21 18:24:36 2016
New Revision: 1003242
Log:
Staging update by buildbot for httpd
Modified:
websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content/ (props changed)
websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content/security/vulnerabilities-httpd.xml
websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content/security/vulnerabilities_24.html
Propchange: websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content/
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--- cms:source-revision (original)
+++ cms:source-revision Wed Dec 21 18:24:36 2016
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1775362
+1775525
Modified: websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content/security/vulnerabilities-httpd.xml
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--- websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content/security/vulnerabilities-httpd.xml (original)
+++ websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content/security/vulnerabilities-httpd.xml Wed Dec 21 18:24:36 2016
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
<issue fixed="2.4.25" reported="20160210" public="20161220" released="20161220">
<cve name="CVE-2016-8743"/>
-<severity level="0">TBD</severity>
+<severity level="2">important</severity>
<title>Apache HTTP Request Parsing Whitespace Defects</title>
<description><p>
Apache HTTP Server, prior to release 2.4.25, accepted a broad pattern of
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ as well as Régis Leroy for each repor
<issue fixed="2.4.25" reported="20161122" public="20161204" released="20161220">
<cve name="CVE-2016-8740"/>
-<severity level="0">n/a</severity>
+<severity level="4">low</severity>
<title>HTTP/2 CONTINUATION denial of service</title>
<description><p>
The HTTP/2 protocol implementation (mod_http2) had an incomplete handling
@@ -136,6 +136,10 @@ and CDF/SEFCOM at Arizona State Universi
<a href="https://www.apache.org/security/asf-httpoxy-response.txt"
>https://www.apache.org/security/asf-httpoxy-response.txt</a>
and incorporated in the 2.4.25 release.
+</p><p>
+ Note: This is not assigned an httpd severity, as it is a defect in
+ other software which overloaded well-established CGI environment
+ variables, and does not reflect an error in HTTP server software.
</p></description>
<acknowledgements>
We would like to thank Dominic Scheirlinck and Scott Geary of Vend
Modified: websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content/security/vulnerabilities_24.html
==============================================================================
--- websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content/security/vulnerabilities_24.html (original)
+++ websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content/security/vulnerabilities_24.html Wed Dec 21 18:24:36 2016
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ these vulnerabilities to the <a href="/s
Team</a>. </p><p><em>The initial GA release, Apache httpd 2.4.1, includes fixes for all vulnerabilities which have been resolved in Apache httpd 2.2.22 and all older releases. Consult the <a href="vulnerabilities_22.html">Apache httpd 2.2 vulnerabilities list</a> for more information.</em></p><h1 id="2.4.25">
Fixed in Apache httpd 2.4.25</h1><dl>
<dd>
- <b>TBD: </b>
+ <b>important: </b>
<b>
<name name="CVE-2016-8743">Apache HTTP Request Parsing Whitespace Defects</name>
</b>
@@ -174,6 +174,34 @@ as well as Régis Leroy for each repor
<dd>
<b>low: </b>
<b>
+ <name name="CVE-2016-8740">HTTP/2 CONTINUATION denial of service</name>
+ </b>
+ <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8740">CVE-2016-8740</a>
+ <p>
+ The HTTP/2 protocol implementation (mod_http2) had an incomplete handling
+ of the
+ <a href="https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#limitrequestfields">LimitRequestFields</a>
+ directive. This allowed an attacker to inject unlimited request headers into
+ the server, leading to eventual memory exhaustion.
+</p>
+ </dd>
+ <dd>
+ <p>Acknowledgements:
+We would like to thank Naveen Tiwari
+and CDF/SEFCOM at Arizona State University to reporting this issue.
+</p>
+ </dd>
+ <dd>
+ Reported to security team: 22nd November 2016<br/>
+ Issue public: 4th December 2016<br/></dd>
+ <dd>
+ Update Released: 20th December 2016<br/></dd>
+ <dd>
+ Affects:
+ 2.4.23, 2.4.20, 2.4.18, 2.4.17<p/></dd>
+ <dd>
+ <b>low: </b>
+ <b>
<name name="CVE-2016-2161">DoS vulnerability in mod_auth_digest</name>
</b>
<a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2161">CVE-2016-2161</a>
@@ -227,34 +255,6 @@ this issue.
<dd>
<b>n/a: </b>
<b>
- <name name="CVE-2016-8740">HTTP/2 CONTINUATION denial of service</name>
- </b>
- <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8740">CVE-2016-8740</a>
- <p>
- The HTTP/2 protocol implementation (mod_http2) had an incomplete handling
- of the
- <a href="https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#limitrequestfields">LimitRequestFields</a>
- directive. This allowed an attacker to inject unlimited request headers into
- the server, leading to eventual memory exhaustion.
-</p>
- </dd>
- <dd>
- <p>Acknowledgements:
-We would like to thank Naveen Tiwari
-and CDF/SEFCOM at Arizona State University to reporting this issue.
-</p>
- </dd>
- <dd>
- Reported to security team: 22nd November 2016<br/>
- Issue public: 4th December 2016<br/></dd>
- <dd>
- Update Released: 20th December 2016<br/></dd>
- <dd>
- Affects:
- 2.4.23, 2.4.20, 2.4.18, 2.4.17<p/></dd>
- <dd>
- <b>n/a: </b>
- <b>
<name name="CVE-2016-5387">HTTP_PROXY environment variable "httpoxy" mitigation</name>
</b>
<a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5387">CVE-2016-5387</a>
@@ -270,6 +270,11 @@ and CDF/SEFCOM at Arizona State Universi
<a href="https://www.apache.org/security/asf-httpoxy-response.txt">https://www.apache.org/security/asf-httpoxy-response.txt</a>
and incorporated in the 2.4.25 release.
</p>
+ <p>
+ Note: This is not assigned an httpd severity, as it is a defect in
+ other software which overloaded well-established CGI environment
+ variables, and does not reflect an error in HTTP server software.
+</p>
</dd>
<dd>
<p>Acknowledgements: