Security update for package apache

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(Last modified: 21JUN2004)

solutions Security update for package apache SuSE Linux Maintenance Web (c6e2744b39469696f324d3ea05bc70da)

Applies to

Product(s): SUSE LINUX Retail Solution 8
SuSE Linux School Server for i386
SuSE Linux Standard Server 8
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for x86
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for IPF
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for IBM iSeries and IBM pSeries
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for IBM S/390 and IBM zSeries
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for IBM zSeries
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for AMD64
SuSE Linux Openexchange Server 4

Package: apache
Release: 20040621
Obsoletes: none

Indications

Everyone using the Apache web server should install this update.

Contraindications

None.

Description

With this fix, responses from a remote server are rejected if they send an
invalid (negative) Content-Length. The security issue is a buffer overflow;
it does not represent a significant denial of service attack as requests will
continue to be handled by other Apache child processes; but under some
circumstances it may be possible to exploit this issue to cause arbitrary code
execution. The bug affects only Apache HTTPd 1.3 installations that use
mod_proxy.

Solution

Please install the updates provided at the location noted below.

Installation notes

This update is provided as an RPM package that can easily be installed onto a running system by using this command:
rpm -Fvh apache.rpm
After the update, please run
SuSEconfig --module apache rcapache restart

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