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Posted to cvs@httpd.apache.org by wr...@apache.org on 2014/08/29 19:27:10 UTC
svn commit: r6313 - in /dev/httpd: Announcement2.2.html Announcement2.2.txt
Author: wrowe
Date: Fri Aug 29 17:27:10 2014
New Revision: 6313
Log:
Prep announcement of 2.2.29
Modified:
dev/httpd/Announcement2.2.html
dev/httpd/Announcement2.2.txt
Modified: dev/httpd/Announcement2.2.html
==============================================================================
--- dev/httpd/Announcement2.2.html (original)
+++ dev/httpd/Announcement2.2.html Fri Aug 29 17:27:10 2014
@@ -15,39 +15,54 @@
<img src="../../images/apache_sub.gif" alt="" />
<h1>
- Apache HTTP Server 2.2.27 Released
+ Apache HTTP Server 2.2.29 Released
</h1>
<p>
The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache HTTP Server Project are
- pleased to announce the release of version 2.2.27 of the Apache HTTP
- Server ("Apache"). This version of Apache is principally a security
- and bug fix maintenance release.
+ pleased to announce the release of version 2.2.29 of the Apache HTTP
+ Server ("Apache"). (Note that 2.2.28 was not released). This version
+ of Apache is principally a security and bug fix maintenance release,
+ and addresses these specific security defects as well as other fixes;
</p>
<ul>
-<li><a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0098">CVE-2014-0098</a>
- Segfaults with truncated cookie logging.
- mod_log_config: Prevent segfaults when logging truncated
- cookies. Clean up the cookie logging parser to recognize
- only the cookie=value pairs, not valueless cookies.
+<li><a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0118">CVE-2014-0118</a>
+ mod_deflate: The DEFLATE input filter (inflates request bodies) now
+ limits the length and compression ratio of inflated request bodies to
+ avoid denial of sevice via highly compressed bodies. See directives
+ DeflateInflateLimitRequestBody, DeflateInflateRatioLimit,
+ and DeflateInflateRatioBurst.
</li>
-<li><a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6438">CVE-2013-6438</a>
- mod_dav: Keep track of length of cdata properly when removing
- leading spaces. Eliminates a potential denial of service from
- specifically crafted DAV WRITE requests
+<li><a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0231">CVE-2014-0231</a>
+ mod_cgid: Fix a denial of service against CGI scripts that do
+ not consume stdin that could lead to lingering HTTPD child processes
+ filling up the scoreboard and eventually hanging the server. By
+ default, the client I/O timeout (Timeout directive) now applies to
+ communication with scripts. The CGIDScriptTimeout directive can be
+ used to set a different timeout for communication with scripts.
+</li>
+<li><a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0226">CVE-2014-0226</a>
+ Fix a race condition in scoreboard handling, which could lead to
+ a heap buffer overflow.
+</li>
+<li><a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-5704">CVE-2013-5704</a>
+ HTTP trailers could be used to replace HTTP headers late during
+ request processing, potentially undoing or otherwise confusing
+ modules that examined or modified request headers earlier.
+ Adds "MergeTrailers" directive to restore this legacy behavior.
</li>
</ul>
<p>
We consider the Apache HTTP Server 2.4 release to be the best version
of Apache available, and encourage users of 2.2 and all prior versions
- to upgrade. This 2.2 maintenance release is offered for those unable
- to upgrade at this time. For further details, see:
+ to upgrade. This 2.2 maintenance release is offered for those unable
+ to upgrade at this time. For further details, see:
<dl>
<dd><a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/Announcement2.4.html"
>http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/Announcement2.4.html</a></dd>
</dl>
</p>
<p>
- Apache HTTP Server 2.4 and 2.2.27 are available for download from:
+ Apache HTTP Server 2.4 and 2.2.29 are available for download from:
</p>
<dl>
<dd><a href="http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi"
@@ -55,8 +70,8 @@
</dl>
<p>
Please see the CHANGES_2.2 file, linked from the download page, for a
- full list of changes. A condensed list, CHANGES_2.2.27 includes only
- those changes introduced since the prior 2.2 release. A summary of all
+ full list of changes. A condensed list, CHANGES_2.2.29 includes only
+ those changes introduced since the prior 2.2 release. A summary of all
of the security vulnerabilities addressed in this and earlier releases
is available:
</p>
@@ -66,9 +81,9 @@
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
- This release includes the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) version 1.5.0
+ This release includes the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) version 1.5.1
and APR Utility Library (APR-util) version 1.5.3, bundled with the tar
- and zip distributions. The APR libraries libapr and libaprutil (and
+ and zip distributions. The APR libraries libapr and libaprutil (and
on Win32, libapriconv version 1.2.1) must all be updated to ensure
binary compatibility and address many known security and platform bugs.
APR version 1.5 and APR-util version 1.5 represent minor version upgrades
@@ -76,7 +91,7 @@
</p>
<p>
This release builds on and extends the Apache 2.0 API and is superceeded
- by the Apache 2.4 API. Modules written for Apache 2.0 or 2.4 will need
+ by the Apache 2.4 API. Modules written for Apache 2.0 or 2.4 will need
to be recompiled in order to run with Apache 2.2, and most will require
minimal or no source code changes.
</p>
Modified: dev/httpd/Announcement2.2.txt
==============================================================================
--- dev/httpd/Announcement2.2.txt (original)
+++ dev/httpd/Announcement2.2.txt Fri Aug 29 17:27:10 2014
@@ -1,50 +1,65 @@
- Apache HTTP Server 2.2.27 Released
+ Apache HTTP Server 2.2.29 Released
The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache HTTP Server Project are
- pleased to announce the release of version 2.2.27 of the Apache HTTP
- Server ("Apache"). This version of Apache is principally a security
- and bug fix maintenance release.
-
- CVE-2014-0098 (cve.mitre.org)
- Segfaults with truncated cookie logging.
- mod_log_config: Prevent segfaults when logging truncated
- cookies. Clean up the cookie logging parser to recognize
- only the cookie=value pairs, not valueless cookies.
-
- CVE-2013-6438 (cve.mitre.org)
- mod_dav: Keep track of length of cdata properly when removing
- leading spaces. Eliminates a potential denial of service from
- specifically crafted DAV WRITE requests
+ pleased to announce the release of version 2.2.29 of the Apache HTTP
+ Server ("Apache"). (Note that 2.2.28 was not released). This version
+ of Apache is principally a security and bug fix maintenance release,
+ and addresses these specific security defects as well as other fixes;
+
+ CVE-2014-0118 (cve.mitre.org)
+ mod_deflate: The DEFLATE input filter (inflates request bodies) now
+ limits the length and compression ratio of inflated request bodies to
+ avoid denial of sevice via highly compressed bodies. See directives
+ DeflateInflateLimitRequestBody, DeflateInflateRatioLimit,
+ and DeflateInflateRatioBurst.
+
+ CVE-2014-0231 (cve.mitre.org)
+ mod_cgid: Fix a denial of service against CGI scripts that do
+ not consume stdin that could lead to lingering HTTPD child processes
+ filling up the scoreboard and eventually hanging the server. By
+ default, the client I/O timeout (Timeout directive) now applies to
+ communication with scripts. The CGIDScriptTimeout directive can be
+ used to set a different timeout for communication with scripts.
+
+ CVE-2014-0226 (cve.mitre.org)
+ Fix a race condition in scoreboard handling, which could lead to
+ a heap buffer overflow.
+
+ CVE-2013-5704 (cve.mitre.org)
+ HTTP trailers could be used to replace HTTP headers late during
+ request processing, potentially undoing or otherwise confusing
+ modules that examined or modified request headers earlier.
+ Adds "MergeTrailers" directive to restore this legacy behavior.
We consider the Apache HTTP Server 2.4 release to be the best version
of Apache available, and encourage users of 2.2 and all prior versions
- to upgrade. This 2.2 maintenance release is offered for those unable
- to upgrade at this time. For further details, see:
+ to upgrade. This 2.2 maintenance release is offered for those unable
+ to upgrade at this time. For further details, see:
http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/Announcement2.4.txt
- Apache HTTP Server 2.4 and 2.2.27 are available for download from:
+ Apache HTTP Server 2.4 and 2.2.29 are available for download from:
http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi
Please see the CHANGES_2.2 file, linked from the download page, for a
- full list of changes. A condensed list, CHANGES_2.2.27 includes only
- those changes introduced since the prior 2.2 release. A summary of all
+ full list of changes. A condensed list, CHANGES_2.2.29 includes only
+ those changes introduced since the prior 2.2 release. A summary of all
of the security vulnerabilities addressed in this and earlier releases
is available:
http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_22.html
- This release includes the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) version 1.5.0
+ This release includes the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) version 1.5.1
and APR Utility Library (APR-util) version 1.5.3, bundled with the tar
- and zip distributions. The APR libraries libapr and libaprutil (and
+ and zip distributions. The APR libraries libapr and libaprutil (and
on Win32, libapriconv version 1.2.1) must all be updated to ensure
binary compatibility and address many known security and platform bugs.
APR version 1.5 and APR-util version 1.5 represent minor version upgrades
from earlier httpd 2.2 source distributions.
This release builds on and extends the Apache 2.0 API and is superceeded
- by the Apache 2.4 API. Modules written for Apache 2.0 or 2.4 will need
+ by the Apache 2.4 API. Modules written for Apache 2.0 or 2.4 will need
to be recompiled in order to run with Apache 2.2, and most will require
minimal or no source code changes.