Security Information / 2012 / Security Information -- DSA-2532-1 libapache2-mod-rpaf

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2532-1 libapache2-mod-rpaf -- denial of service

Date Reported:

22 Aug 2012

Affected Packages:

libapache2-mod-rpaf

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 683984.

More information:

Sébastien Bocahu discovered that the reverse proxy add forward module for the Apache webserver is vulnerable to a denial of service attack through a single crafted request with many headers.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.5-3+squeeze1.

For the testing distribution (wheezy) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.6-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libapache2-mod-rpaf packages.