ALAS-2014-389


Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2014-389
Advisory Release Date: 2014-07-31 13:56 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-19 11:40 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

A race condition flaw, leading to heap-based buffer overflows, was found in the mod_status httpd module. A remote attacker able to access a status page served by mod_status on a server using a threaded Multi-Processing Module (MPM) could send a specially crafted request that would cause the httpd child process to crash or, possibly, allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the "apache" user. (CVE-2014-0226)

A denial of service flaw was found in the way httpd's mod_deflate module handled request body decompression (configured via the "DEFLATE" input filter). A remote attacker able to send a request whose body would be decompressed could use this flaw to consume an excessive amount of system memory and CPU on the target system. (CVE-2014-0118)

A denial of service flaw was found in the way httpd's mod_cgid module executed CGI scripts that did not read data from the standard input. A remote attacker could submit a specially crafted request that would cause the httpd child process to hang indefinitely. (CVE-2014-0231)


Affected Packages:

httpd24


Issue Correction:
Run yum update httpd24 to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    mod24_proxy_html-2.4.10-1.59.amzn1.i686
    httpd24-2.4.10-1.59.amzn1.i686
    httpd24-debuginfo-2.4.10-1.59.amzn1.i686
    mod24_ldap-2.4.10-1.59.amzn1.i686
    httpd24-tools-2.4.10-1.59.amzn1.i686
    mod24_ssl-2.4.10-1.59.amzn1.i686
    httpd24-devel-2.4.10-1.59.amzn1.i686
    mod24_session-2.4.10-1.59.amzn1.i686

noarch:
    httpd24-manual-2.4.10-1.59.amzn1.noarch

src:
    httpd24-2.4.10-1.59.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    mod24_proxy_html-2.4.10-1.59.amzn1.x86_64
    httpd24-tools-2.4.10-1.59.amzn1.x86_64
    mod24_ldap-2.4.10-1.59.amzn1.x86_64
    httpd24-2.4.10-1.59.amzn1.x86_64
    httpd24-debuginfo-2.4.10-1.59.amzn1.x86_64
    httpd24-devel-2.4.10-1.59.amzn1.x86_64
    mod24_session-2.4.10-1.59.amzn1.x86_64
    mod24_ssl-2.4.10-1.59.amzn1.x86_64