ALAS-2018-1062


Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2018-1062
Advisory Release Date: 2018-08-22 18:56 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2018-08-23 17:29 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

By specially crafting HTTP requests, the mod_md challenge handler would dereference a NULL pointer and cause the child process to segfault. This could be used to DoS the server. Fixed in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.34 (Affected 2.4.33).(CVE-2018-8011)


Affected Packages:

httpd24


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

New Packages:
i686:
    httpd24-2.4.34-1.82.amzn1.i686
    mod24_md-2.4.34-1.82.amzn1.i686
    mod24_ssl-2.4.34-1.82.amzn1.i686
    mod24_ldap-2.4.34-1.82.amzn1.i686
    httpd24-tools-2.4.34-1.82.amzn1.i686
    mod24_proxy_html-2.4.34-1.82.amzn1.i686
    httpd24-debuginfo-2.4.34-1.82.amzn1.i686
    httpd24-devel-2.4.34-1.82.amzn1.i686
    mod24_session-2.4.34-1.82.amzn1.i686

noarch:
    httpd24-manual-2.4.34-1.82.amzn1.noarch

src:
    httpd24-2.4.34-1.82.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    mod24_proxy_html-2.4.34-1.82.amzn1.x86_64
    httpd24-devel-2.4.34-1.82.amzn1.x86_64
    mod24_ssl-2.4.34-1.82.amzn1.x86_64
    httpd24-tools-2.4.34-1.82.amzn1.x86_64
    mod24_md-2.4.34-1.82.amzn1.x86_64
    mod24_ldap-2.4.34-1.82.amzn1.x86_64
    mod24_session-2.4.34-1.82.amzn1.x86_64
    httpd24-2.4.34-1.82.amzn1.x86_64
    httpd24-debuginfo-2.4.34-1.82.amzn1.x86_64