Issued:

2017-11-28

Updated:

2017-11-28

RHSA-2017:3270 - Important: apr security update

Synopsis

Important: apr security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for apr is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is a portability library used by the Apache HTTP Server and other projects. It provides a free library of C data structures and routines.

Security Fix(es):

• An out-of-bounds array dereference was found in apr_time_exp_get(). An attacker could abuse an unvalidated usage of this function to cause a denial of service or potentially lead to data leak. (CVE-2017-12613)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

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

Applications using the APR libraries, such as httpd, must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• apr-1.4.8-3.el7_4.1.ppc64le.rpm
• apr-devel-1.4.8-3.el7_4.1.ppc.rpm
• apr-devel-1.4.8-3.el7_4.1.ppc64le.rpm
• apr-debuginfo-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.i686.rpm
• apr-1.4.8-3.el7_4.1.i686.rpm
• apr-devel-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.ppc64.rpm
• apr-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.ppc.rpm
• apr-devel-1.4.8-3.el7_4.1.i686.rpm
• apr-devel-1.4.8-3.el7_4.1.s390.rpm
• apr-1.4.8-3.el7_4.1.src.rpm
• apr-debuginfo-1.4.8-3.el7_4.1.ppc.rpm
• apr-debuginfo-1.4.8-3.el7_4.1.s390.rpm
• apr-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.x86_64.rpm
• apr-devel-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.s390.rpm
• apr-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.s390x.rpm
• apr-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.s390.rpm
• apr-1.4.8-3.el7_4.1.ppc64.rpm
• apr-devel-1.4.8-3.el7_4.1.x86_64.rpm
• apr-devel-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.i686.rpm
• apr-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.src.rpm
• apr-debuginfo-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.ppc64.rpm
• apr-debuginfo-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.x86_64.rpm
• apr-debuginfo-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.s390x.rpm
• apr-debuginfo-1.4.8-3.el7_4.1.x86_64.rpm
• apr-debuginfo-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.ppc.rpm
• apr-devel-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.s390x.rpm
• apr-1.4.8-3.el7_4.1.ppc.rpm
• apr-debuginfo-1.4.8-3.el7_4.1.i686.rpm
• apr-devel-1.4.8-3.el7_4.1.aarch64.rpm
• apr-1.4.8-3.el7_4.1.x86_64.rpm
• apr-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.ppc64.rpm
• apr-debuginfo-1.4.8-3.el7_4.1.aarch64.rpm
• apr-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.i686.rpm
• apr-devel-1.4.8-3.el7_4.1.s390x.rpm
• apr-debuginfo-1.4.8-3.el7_4.1.ppc64.rpm
• apr-devel-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.x86_64.rpm
• apr-1.4.8-3.el7_4.1.s390.rpm
• apr-devel-1.4.8-3.el7_4.1.ppc64.rpm
• apr-devel-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.ppc.rpm
• apr-1.4.8-3.el7_4.1.aarch64.rpm
• apr-debuginfo-1.4.8-3.el7_4.1.ppc64le.rpm
• apr-debuginfo-1.3.9-5.el6_9.1.s390.rpm
• apr-debuginfo-1.4.8-3.el7_4.1.s390x.rpm
• apr-1.4.8-3.el7_4.1.s390x.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1506523

CVEs

• CVE-2017-12613

References

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

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/.
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