Wie Heise berichtet, wurden neben Fehlern auch Bug-Fixes in der neuen Apache-Version entfernt:
... Versionen 2.0.61 und 2.2.6 ihres HTTP-Servers veröffentlicht, in der neben zahlreichen Bug-Fixes
auch fünf sicherheitsrelevante Fehler beseitigt sind.
Die Korrekturen wurden an den Modulen mod_proxy, mod_cache und mod_status durchgeführt.
Auf der Apache-Homepage kann man hierzu folgende Berichte finden: Apache HTTP Server 2.2.6 Released und Apache HTTP Server 2.0.61 Released.
Die Apache-Fundation macht zu den Änderungen folgende Angaben:
Apache HTTP Server 2.2.6
- CVE-2007-3847:
mod_proxy: Prevent reading past the end of a buffer when parsing
date-related headers. PR 41144.
- CVE-2007-1863:
mod_cache: Prevent a segmentation fault if attributes are listed in a
Cache-Control header without any value.
- CVE-2007-3304:
prefork, worker, event MPMs: Ensure that the parent process cannot
be forced to kill processes outside its process group.
- CVE-2006-5752:
mod_status: Fix a possible XSS attack against a site with a public
server-status page and ExtendedStatus enabled, for browsers which
perform charset "detection". Reported by Stefan Esser.
- CVE-2006-1862:
mod_mem_cache: Copy headers into longer lived storage; header names and
values could previously point to cleaned up storage. PR 41551.
Apache HTTP Server 2.0.61
- CVE-2007-3847:
mod_proxy: Prevent reading past the end of a buffer when parsing
date-related headers. PR 41144.
- CVE-2007-1863:
mod_cache: Prevent segmentation fault if a Cache-Control header has
no value.
- CVE-2006-5752:
mod_status: Fix a possible XSS attack against a site with a public
server-status page and ExtendedStatus enabled, for browsers which
perform charset "detection". Reported by Stefan Esser.
- CVE-2007-3304:
prefork, worker MPMs: Ensure that the parent process cannot
be forced to kill processes outside its process group.