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Posted to cvs@httpd.apache.org by bu...@apache.org on 2016/12/05 09:04:58 UTC
svn commit: r1002177 - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./
security/vulnerabilities-httpd.xml security/vulnerabilities_24.html
Author: buildbot
Date: Mon Dec 5 09:04:58 2016
New Revision: 1002177
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 Mon Dec 5 09:04:58 2016
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1772455
+1772611
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 Mon Dec 5 09:04:58 2016
@@ -1,5 +1,27 @@
<security updated="20160726">
+<issue fixed="2.4.24-dev" reported="20161122" public="20161204" released="20161204">
+<cve name="CVE-2016-8740"/>
+<severity level="0">n/a</severity>
+<title></title>
+<description><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></description>
+<acknowledgements>
+We would like to thank <a href="naveen.tiwari@asu.edu">Naveen Tiwari</a>
+and CDF/SEFCOM at Arizona State University to reporting this issue.
+</acknowledgements>
+<affects prod="httpd" version="2.4.23"/>
+<affects prod="httpd" version="2.4.20"/>
+<affects prod="httpd" version="2.4.18"/>
+<affects prod="httpd" version="2.4.17"/>
+</issue>
+
<issue fixed="2.4.24-dev" reported="20160702" public="20160718" released="20160718">
<cve name="CVE-2016-5387"/>
<severity level="0">n/a</severity>
Modified: websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content/security/vulnerabilities_24.html
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--- websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content/security/vulnerabilities_24.html (original)
+++ websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content/security/vulnerabilities_24.html Mon Dec 5 09:04:58 2016
@@ -105,6 +105,35 @@ Fixed in Apache httpd 2.4.24-dev</h1><dl
<dd>
<b>n/a: </b>
<b>
+ <name name="CVE-2016-8740"/>
+ </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: 4th 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>