Issued:

2015-03-05

Updated:

2015-03-05

RHSA-2015:0325 - Low: httpd security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Synopsis

Low: httpd security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Low

Topic

Updated httpd packages that fix two security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Low security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Description

The httpd packages provide the Apache HTTP Server, a powerful, efficient, and extensible web server.

A flaw was found in the way httpd handled HTTP Trailer headers when processing requests using chunked encoding. A malicious client could use Trailer headers to set additional HTTP headers after header processing was performed by other modules. This could, for example, lead to a bypass of header restrictions defined with mod_headers. (CVE-2013-5704)

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way the mod_cache httpd module handled Content-Type headers. A malicious HTTP server could cause the httpd child process to crash when the Apache HTTP server was configured to proxy to a server with caching enabled. (CVE-2014-3581)

This update also fixes the following bugs:

• Previously, the mod_proxy_fcgi Apache module always kept the back-end connections open even when they should have been closed. As a consequence, the number of open file descriptors was increasing over the time. With this update, mod_proxy_fcgi has been fixed to check the state of the back-end connections, and it closes the idle back-end connections as expected. (BZ#1168050)

• An integer overflow occurred in the ab utility when a large request count was used. Consequently, ab terminated unexpectedly with a segmentation fault while printing statistics after the benchmark. This bug has been fixed, and ab no longer crashes in this scenario. (BZ#1092420)

• Previously, when httpd was running in the foreground and the user pressed Ctrl+C to interrupt the httpd processes, a race condition in signal handling occurred. The SIGINT signal was sent to all children followed by SIGTERM from the main process, which interrupted the SIGINT handler. Consequently, the affected processes became unresponsive or terminated unexpectedly. With this update, the SIGINT signals in the child processes are ignored, and httpd no longer hangs or crashes in this scenario. (BZ#1131006)

In addition, this update adds the following enhancements:

• With this update, the mod_proxy module of the Apache HTTP Server supports the Unix Domain Sockets (UDS). This allows mod_proxy back ends to listen on UDS sockets instead of TCP sockets, and as a result, mod_proxy can be used to connect UDS back ends. (BZ#1168081)

• This update adds support for using the SetHandler directive together with the mod_proxy module. As a result, it is possible to configure SetHandler to use proxy for incoming requests, for example, in the following format: SetHandler "proxy:fcgi://127.0.0.1:9000". (BZ#1136290)

• The htaccess API changes introduced in httpd 2.4.7 have been backported to httpd shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1. These changes allow for the MPM-ITK module to be compiled as an httpd module. (BZ#1059143)

All httpd users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues and add these enhancements. After installing the updated packages, the httpd daemon will be restarted automatically.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• mod_proxy_html-2.4.6-31.el7.x86_64.rpm
• mod_ssl-2.4.6-31.el7.ppc64.rpm
• httpd-manual-2.4.6-31.el7.noarch.rpm
• httpd-2.4.6-31.el7.x86_64.rpm
• httpd-debuginfo-2.4.6-31.el7.s390x.rpm
• httpd-tools-2.4.6-31.el7.s390x.rpm
• mod_proxy_html-2.4.6-31.el7.ppc64.rpm
• mod_session-2.4.6-31.el7.x86_64.rpm
• mod_proxy_html-2.4.6-31.el7.s390x.rpm
• httpd-2.4.6-31.el7.src.rpm
• httpd-tools-2.4.6-31.el7.x86_64.rpm
• mod_ssl-2.4.6-31.el7.x86_64.rpm
• httpd-debuginfo-2.4.6-31.el7.ppc64.rpm
• httpd-devel-2.4.6-31.el7.x86_64.rpm
• httpd-tools-2.4.6-31.el7.ppc64.rpm
• httpd-2.4.6-31.el7.ppc64.rpm
• mod_session-2.4.6-31.el7.ppc64.rpm
• mod_ldap-2.4.6-31.el7.x86_64.rpm
• mod_session-2.4.6-31.el7.s390x.rpm
• httpd-debuginfo-2.4.6-31.el7.x86_64.rpm
• mod_ldap-2.4.6-31.el7.s390x.rpm
• httpd-2.4.6-31.el7.s390x.rpm
• httpd-devel-2.4.6-31.el7.s390x.rpm
• mod_ssl-2.4.6-31.el7.s390x.rpm
• httpd-devel-2.4.6-31.el7.ppc64.rpm
• mod_ldap-2.4.6-31.el7.ppc64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1059143
• This content is not included.BZ - 1060536
• This content is not included.BZ - 1073078
• This content is not included.BZ - 1073081
• This content is not included.BZ - 1080125
• This content is not included.BZ - 1082903
• This content is not included.BZ - 1114123
• This content is not included.BZ - 1131006
• This content is not included.BZ - 1131847
• This content is not included.BZ - 1136290
• This content is not included.BZ - 1149709

CVEs

• CVE-2013-5704
• CVE-2014-3581

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.