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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2015.1872
Apache HTTP Server 2.4.16 Released
16 July 2015
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: Apache HTTP Server
Publisher: The Apache Software Foundation
Operating System: UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
Windows
Impact/Access: Denial of Service -- Remote/Unauthenticated
Reduced Security -- Remote/Unauthenticated
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2015-3185 CVE-2015-3183 CVE-2015-0253
CVE-2015-0228
Reference: ESB-2015.0597
Original Bulletin:
http://mail-archives.us.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201507.mbox/%3CAA5C882C-A9C3-46B9-9320-5040A2152E83@apache.org%3E
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Apache HTTP Server 2.4.16 Released
The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache HTTP Server Project
are pleased to announce the release of version 2.4.16 of the Apache
HTTP Server ("Apache"). This version of Apache is our latest GA
release of the new generation 2.4.x branch of Apache HTTPD and
represents fifteen years of innovation by the project, and is
recommended over all previous releases. This release of Apache is
principally a security, feature and bug fix release. NOTE: versions
2.4.13, 2.4.14 and 2.4.15 were not released.
CVE-2015-3183 (cve.mitre.org)
core: Fix chunk header parsing defect.
Remove apr_brigade_flatten(), buffering and duplicated code from
the HTTP_IN filter, parse chunks in a single pass with zero copy.
Limit accepted chunk-size to 2^63-1 and be strict about chunk-ext
authorized characters.
CVE-2015-3185 (cve.mitre.org)
Replacement of ap_some_auth_required (unusable in Apache httpd 2.4)
with new ap_some_authn_required and ap_force_authn hook.
CVE-2015-0253 (cve.mitre.org)
core: Fix a crash with ErrorDocument 400 pointing to a local URL-path
with the INCLUDES filter active, introduced in 2.4.11. PR 57531.
CVE-2015-0228 (cve.mitre.org)
mod_lua: A maliciously crafted websockets PING after a script
calls r:wsupgrade() can cause a child process crash.
Also in this release are some exciting new features including:
*) Better default recommended SSLCipherSuite and SSLProxyCipherSuite
*) mod_proxy_scgi: ProxySCGIInternalRedirect now allows an alternate
response header to be used by the application
*) Event MPM improvements
*) Various mod_proxy_* improvements
*) mod_log_config: Add "%{UNIT}T" format to output request duration in
seconds, milliseconds or microseconds depending on UNIT ("s", "ms",
"us")
We consider this release to be the best version of Apache available, and
encourage users of all prior versions to upgrade.
Apache HTTP Server 2.4.16 is available for download from:
http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi
Apache 2.4 offers numerous enhancements, improvements, and performance
boosts over the 2.2 codebase. For an overview of new features
introduced since 2.4 please see:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/new_features_2_4.html
Please see the CHANGES_2.4 file, linked from the download page, for a
full list of changes. A condensed list, CHANGES_2.4.16 includes only
those changes introduced since the prior 2.4 release. A summary of all
of the security vulnerabilities addressed in this and earlier releases
is available:
http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html
This release requires the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) version 1.5.x
and APR-Util version 1.5.x. The APR libraries must be upgraded for all
features of httpd to operate correctly.
This release builds on and extends the Apache 2.2 API. Modules written
for Apache 2.2 will need to be recompiled in order to run with Apache
2.4, and require minimal or no source code changes.
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk/VERSIONING
When upgrading or installing this version of Apache, please bear in mind
that if you intend to use Apache with one of the threaded MPMs (other
than the Prefork MPM), you must ensure that any modules you will be
using (and the libraries they depend on) are thread-safe.
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