Debian Security Advisory
DSA-525-1 apache -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 24 Jun 2004
- Affected Packages:
- apache
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 10508.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0492. - More information:
-
Georgi Guninski discovered a buffer overflow bug in Apache's mod_proxy module, whereby a remote user could potentially cause arbitrary code to be executed with the privileges of an Apache httpd child process (by default, user www-data). Note that this bug is only exploitable if the mod_proxy module is in use.
Note that this bug exists in a module in the apache-common package, shared by apache, apache-ssl and apache-perl, so this update is sufficient to correct the bug for all three builds of Apache httpd. However, on systems using apache-ssl or apache-perl, httpd will not automatically be restarted.
For the current stable distribution (woody), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.26-0woody5.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.31-2.
We recommend that you update your apache package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache_1.3.26-0woody5.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache_1.3.26-0woody5.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache_1.3.26.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache_1.3.26-0woody5.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache-doc_1.3.26-0woody5_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache_1.3.26-0woody5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache-common_1.3.26-0woody5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache-dev_1.3.26-0woody5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache-common_1.3.26-0woody5_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache_1.3.26-0woody5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache-common_1.3.26-0woody5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache-dev_1.3.26-0woody5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache-common_1.3.26-0woody5_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache_1.3.26-0woody5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache-common_1.3.26-0woody5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache-dev_1.3.26-0woody5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache-common_1.3.26-0woody5_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache_1.3.26-0woody5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache-common_1.3.26-0woody5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache-dev_1.3.26-0woody5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache-common_1.3.26-0woody5_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache_1.3.26-0woody5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache-common_1.3.26-0woody5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache-dev_1.3.26-0woody5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache-common_1.3.26-0woody5_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache_1.3.26-0woody5_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache-common_1.3.26-0woody5_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache-dev_1.3.26-0woody5_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache-common_1.3.26-0woody5_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache_1.3.26-0woody5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache-common_1.3.26-0woody5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache-dev_1.3.26-0woody5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache-common_1.3.26-0woody5_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache_1.3.26-0woody5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache-common_1.3.26-0woody5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache-dev_1.3.26-0woody5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache-common_1.3.26-0woody5_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache_1.3.26-0woody5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache-common_1.3.26-0woody5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache-dev_1.3.26-0woody5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache-common_1.3.26-0woody5_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache_1.3.26-0woody5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache-common_1.3.26-0woody5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache-dev_1.3.26-0woody5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache-common_1.3.26-0woody5_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache_1.3.26-0woody5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache-common_1.3.26-0woody5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache-dev_1.3.26-0woody5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apache/apache-common_1.3.26-0woody5_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.