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- CVEs with nessus.description==According to David Wagner, iDEFENSE and the Apache HTTP Server
Project, several vulnerabilities have been found in the Apache
package, a commonly used webserver. Most of the code is shared between
the Apache and Apache-SSL packages, so vulnerabilities are shared as
well. These vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to enact a denial
of service against a server or execute a cross scripting attack, or
steal cookies from other web site users. Vulnerabilities in the
included legacy programs htdigest, htpasswd and ApacheBench can be
exploited when called via CGI. Additionally the insecure temporary
file creation in htdigest and htpasswd can also be exploited locally.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project identified the
following vulnerabilities :
- CAN-2002-0839: A vulnerability exists on platforms using
System V shared memory based scoreboards. This
vulnerability allows an attacker to execute code under
the Apache UID to exploit the Apache shared memory
scoreboard format and send a signal to any process as
root or cause a local denial of service attack.
- CAN-2002-0840: Apache is susceptible to a cross site
scripting vulnerability in the default 404 page of any
web server hosted on a domain that allows wildcard DNS
lookups.
- CAN-2002-0843: There were some possible overflows in the
utility ApacheBench (ab) which could be exploited by a
malicious server.
- CAN-2002-1233: A race condition in the htpasswd and
htdigest program enables a malicious local user to read
or even modify the contents of a password file or easily
create and overwrite files as the user running the
htpasswd (or htdigest respectively) program. (binaries
not included in apache-ssl package though)
- CAN-2001-0131: htpasswd and htdigest in Apache 2.0a9,
1.3.14, and others allows local users to overwrite
arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
This is the same vulnerability as CAN-2002-1233, which
was fixed in potato already but got lost later and was
never applied upstream. (binaries not included in
apache-ssl package though)
- NO-CAN: Several buffer overflows have been found in the
ApacheBench (ab) utility that could be exploited by a
remote server returning very long strings. (binary not
included in apache-ssl package though)
These problems have been fixed in version 1.3.26.1 1.48-0woody3 for
the current stable distribution (woody) and in 1.3.9.13-4.2 for the
old stable distribution (potato). Corrected packages for the unstable
distribution (sid) are expected soon.
Max CVSS | 0 |
Min CVSS | 0 |
Total Count | 2 |
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