[OpenPKG-SA-2004.021] OpenPKG Security Advisory (apache)

From: OpenPKG (openpkg_at_openpkg.org)
Date: 05/12/04

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    OpenPKG Security Advisory The OpenPKG Project
    http://www.openpkg.org/security.html http://www.openpkg.org
    openpkg-security@openpkg.org openpkg@openpkg.org
    OpenPKG-SA-2004.021 12-May-2004
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    Package: apache
    Vulnerability: privilege escalation, denial of service
    OpenPKG Specific: no

    Affected Releases: Affected Packages: Corrected Packages:
    OpenPKG CURRENT <= apache-1.3.29-20040421 >= apache-1.3.31-20040511
    OpenPKG 2.0 <= apache-1.3.29-2.0.0 >= apache-1.3.29-2.0.1
    OpenPKG 1.3 <= apache-1.3.28-1.3.2 >= apache-1.3.28-1.3.3

    Dependent Packages: none

    Description:
      With the release of the Apache HTTP Server [0] version 1.3.31, four
      security issues were fixed [1]:

      1. Access Control List (ACL) Handling:
         mod_access in Apache 1.3 before 1.3.30, when running on big-endian
         64-bit platforms, did not properly parse Allow/Deny rules using IP
         addresses without a netmask. This could allow remote attackers to
         bypass intended access restrictions. The Common Vulnerabilities and
         Exposures (CVE) project assigned the id CAN-2003-0993 [2] to the
         problem.

      2. Error Log Escape Sequence Filtering:
         Apache 1.3 before 1.3.30 did not filter terminal escape sequences
         from its error logs. This could make it easier for attackers
         to insert those sequences into the terminal emulators (of
         administrators viewing the error logs) containing vulnerabilities
         related to escape sequence handling. The Common Vulnerabilities and
         Exposures (CVE) project assigned the id CAN-2003-0020 [3] to the
         problem.

      3. Nonce Verification in Digest Authentication:
         mod_digest in Apache 1.3 before 1.3.31 did not properly verify the
         nonce of a client response by using a AuthNonce secret. Apache
         now verifies the nonce returned in the client response to check
         whether it was issued by itself by means of a "AuthDigestRealmSeed"
         secret exposed as an MD5 checksum. The Common Vulnerabilities and
         Exposures (CVE) project assigned the id CAN-2003-0987 [4] to the
         problem.

      4. Starvation Issue in Serialized accept(2) Handling:
         Apache 1.3 before 1.3.30, when using multiple listening sockets
         on certain platforms, allows remote attackers to cause a Denial
         of Service (blocked new connections) via a short-lived connection
         on a rarely-accessed listening socket. This starvation situation
         caused a child to hold the accept(2) mutual exclusion lock and
         block out new connections (on any socket) until another connection
         arrives on that rarely-accessed listening socket. The source of
         the problem seems to be that under some Unix platforms accept(2)
         unexpectedly blocks after select(2) flagged a socket as readable.
         The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project assigned the
         id CAN-2004-0174 [5] to the problem.

      Please check whether you are affected by running "<prefix>/bin/rpm -q
      apache". If you have the "apache" package installed and its version
      is affected (see above), we recommend that you immediately upgrade it
      (see Solution) [6][7].

    Solution:
      Select the updated source RPM appropriate for your OpenPKG release
      [8][9], fetch it from the OpenPKG FTP service [10][11] or a mirror
      location, verify its integrity [12], build a corresponding binary
      RPM from it [6] and update your OpenPKG installation by applying the
      binary RPM [7]. For the most recent release OpenPKG 2.0, perform the
      following operations to permanently fix the security problem (for
      other releases adjust accordingly).

      $ ftp ftp.openpkg.org
      ftp> bin
      ftp> cd release/2.0/UPD
      ftp> get apache-1.3.29-2.0.1.src.rpm
      ftp> bye
      $ <prefix>/bin/openpkg rpm -v --checksig apache-1.3.29-2.0.1.src.rpm
      $ <prefix>/bin/openpkg rpm --rebuild apache-1.3.29-2.0.1.src.rpm
      $ su -
      # <prefix>/bin/openpkg rpm -Fvh <prefix>/RPM/PKG/apache-1.3.29-2.0.1.*.rpm
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    References:
      [0] http://httpd.apache.org/
      [1] http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/CHANGES_1.3
      [2] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2003-0993
      [3] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2003-0020
      [4] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2003-0987
      [5] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0174
      [6] http://www.openpkg.org/tutorial.html#regular-source
      [7] http://www.openpkg.org/tutorial.html#regular-binary
      [8] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/1.3/UPD/apache-1.3.28-1.3.3.src.rpm
      [9] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/2.0/UPD/apache-1.3.29-2.0.1.src.rpm
      [10] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/1.3/UPD/
      [11] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/2.0/UPD/
      [12] http://www.openpkg.org/security.html#signature
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    OpenPGP public key "OpenPKG <openpkg@openpkg.org>" (ID 63C4CB9F) of the
    OpenPKG project which you can retrieve from http://pgp.openpkg.org and
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