Gentoo Linux Advisories: CVS, Apache

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Severity: High
Title: CVS: additional DoS and arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities
Date: June 10, 2004
Bugs: #53408
ID: 200406-06

Synopsis

Several serious new vulnerabilities have been found in CVS, which may allow an attacker to remotely compromise a CVS server.

Background

CVS (Concurrent Versions System) is an open-source network-transparent version control system. It contains both a client utility and a server.

Affected packages

Description

A team audit of the CVS source code performed by Stefan Esser and Sebastian Krahmer resulted in the discovery of several remotely exploitable vulnerabilities including:

• no-null-termination of "Entry" lines
• error_prog_name "double-free()"
• Argument integer overflow
• serve_notify() out of bounds writes

Impact

An attacker could use these vulnerabilities to cause a Denial of Service or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running cvs.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time. All users are advised to upgrade to the latest available version of CVS.

Resolution

All CVS users should upgrade to the latest stable version:

    # emerge sync
    # emerge -pv ">=dev-util/cvs-1.11.17"
    # emerge ">=dev-util/cvs-1.11.17"

References

[ 1 ] E-matters Advisory 09/2004

http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/092004.html

[ 2 ] CAN-2004-0414

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0414

[ 3 ] CAN-2004-0416

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0416

[ 4 ] CAN-2004-0417

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0417

[ 5 ] CAN-2004-0418

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0418

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200406-06.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License

Copyright 2004 Gentoo Technologies, Inc; referenced text belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0

http://security.gentoo.org/

Severity: High
Title: Apache: Buffer overflow in mod_ssl
Date: June 09, 2004
Bugs: #51368
ID: 200406-05

Synopsis

A bug in mod_ssl may allow a remote attacker to execute remote code when Apache is configured a certain way.

Background

Apache is the most popular Web server on the Internet. mod_ssl provides Secure Sockets Layer encryption and authentication to Apache 1.3. Apache 2 contains the functionality of mod_ssl.

Affected packages

Description

A bug in the function ssl_utiluuencodebinary in ssl_util.c may lead to a remote buffer overflow on a server configured to use FakeBasicAuth that will trust a client certificate with an issuing CA with a subject DN longer than 6k.

Impact

Given the right server configuration, an attacker could cause a Denial of Service or execute code as the user running Apache, usually "apache". It is thought to be impossible to exploit this to execute code on the x86 platform, but the possibility for other platforms is unknown. This does not preclude a DoS on x86 systems.

Workaround

A server should not be vulnerable if it is not configured to use FakeBasicAuth and to trust a client CA with a long subject DN.

Resolution

Apache 1.x users should upgrade to the latest version of mod_ssl:

    # emerge sync
    # emerge -pv ">=net-www/modssl-2.8.18
    # emerge ">=net-www/modssl-2.8.18

Apache 2.x users should upgrade to the latest version of Apache:

    # emerge sync
    # emerge -pv ">=net-www/apache-2.0.49-r3"
    # emerge ">=net-www/apache-2.0.49-r3"

References

[ 1 ] CAN-2004-0488

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0488

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200406-05.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License

Copyright 2004 Gentoo Technologies, Inc; referenced text belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0