Issued:
2018-02-13
Updated:
2018-02-13

RHSA-2018:0316 - Important: httpd24-apr security update

Synopsis

Important: httpd24-apr security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for httpd24-apr is now available for Red Hat Software Collections.

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

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation)1x86_64
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server)1x86_64
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server)1x86_64

Updated Packages

  • httpd24-apr-1.5.1-1.el6.1.x86_64.rpm
  • httpd24-apr-debuginfo-1.5.1-1.el6.1.x86_64.rpm
  • httpd24-apr-1.5.1-1.el6.1.src.rpm
  • httpd24-apr-devel-1.5.1-1.el6.1.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information