Bug 32271 – New ebuild needed for apache-2.0.48 which has 2 security fixes

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Security

[Description Haroon Rafique 2003-10-29 07:02:48 UTC]

New ebuild needed for apache-2.0.48. Here's the link to the new announced release of 2.0.48:

http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/Announcement2.html

A couple of security vulnerability fixes and bunch of bug fixes.

[Comment 1 Donny Davies (RETIRED) 2003-10-29 11:16:47 UTC]

I will add this tonight.

Stu -- if I add 2.0.48 un-arch-masked into the tree, then we'll be on
the new --datadir from here on.  That's ok with you you?

I would prefer Apache related bugs to be assigned to the Apache
web-apps herd.  If its security related, add security@g.o to the
CC list.

[Comment 2 Donny Davies (RETIRED) 2003-10-29 23:37:01 UTC]

Needless to say I didnt check it in yet, but do have it finished over here
and will commit tomorrow; got sidetracked by a segfaulting mod_php.

[Comment 3 Stuart Herbert (RETIRED) 2003-10-30 01:01:08 UTC]

Donny - that's okay with me.

Stu

[Comment 4 solar (RETIRED) 2003-10-30 09:46:20 UTC]

Donny,

Please reassign back to security@ and change "Product:" to "Gentoo GLSA"
when we are all good to go..

Thanks

[Comment 5 Donny Davies (RETIRED) 2003-10-30 09:54:44 UTC]

This is a real song and dance we have going on here.

2.0.48 is 'x86' and in-the-tree.

[Comment 6 Kurt Lieber (RETIRED) 2003-10-30 11:26:42 UTC]

Created attachment 19986 [details, diff]
apache init patch

[Comment 7 Kurt Lieber (RETIRED) 2003-10-30 11:27:19 UTC]

bah -- the above patch fixes a bug with the init script that causes apache
to fail to start with the following error:

env: start-stop-daemon: No such file or directory                     [!!]

[Comment 8 Kurt Lieber (RETIRED) 2003-10-30 11:29:30 UTC]

marking as blocker.

[Comment 9 Donny Davies (RETIRED) 2003-10-30 11:58:15 UTC]

Oops, yes you're right; fixed.

[Comment 10 solar (RETIRED) 2003-10-30 12:26:41 UTC]

Donny,

I just did a cvs update and noticed that it's not quite right yet.

env -i /sbin/start-stop-daemon
should be
env -i PATH=$PATH /sbin/start-stop-daemon

[Comment 11 Donny Davies (RETIRED) 2003-10-30 12:42:17 UTC]

Is it really broken?  Please update it if you wish, but its "workingforme".

[Comment 12 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-10-30 12:58:38 UTC]

please add

--retry 5 

like in mysql:
start-stop-daemon --stop --retry 5 --quiet

[Comment 13 Rajiv Aaron Manglani (RETIRED) 2003-10-30 23:26:46 UTC]

just fixed the init scripts (with solar's PATH=$PATH) in cvs.

[Comment 14 Rajiv Aaron Manglani (RETIRED) 2003-10-31 01:13:10 UTC]

to-do in comment #12 moved to bug #32366.


GLSA 200310-04 sent as:


---------------------------------------------------------------------------
GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200310-04
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

          PACKAGE : net-www/apache
          SUMMARY : buffer overflow
             DATE : Fri Oct 31 07:59:00 UTC 2003
          EXPLOIT : local
VERSIONS AFFECTED : <apache-2.0.48
    FIXED VERSION : >=apache-2.0.48
       GENTOO BUG : http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32271
              CVE : CAN-2003-0789 CAN-2003-0542

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Quote from <http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/Announcement2.html>:

    This version of Apache is principally a bug fix release. A summary of
    the bug fixes is given at the end of this document. Of particular note
    is that 2.0.48 addresses two security vulnerabilities:

    mod_cgid mishandling of CGI redirect paths could result in CGI output
    going to the wrong client when a threaded MPM is used.
    [CAN-2003-0789]
    
    A buffer overflow could occur in mod_alias and mod_rewrite when a
    regular expression with more than 9 captures is configured.
    [CAN-2003-0542]
    
    This release is compatible with modules compiled for 2.0.42 and later
    versions. We consider this release to be the best version of Apache
    available and encourage users of all prior versions to upgrade.


SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-misc/apache 2.x upgrade:

emerge sync
emerge '>=net-www/apache-2.0.48'
emerge clean

Please remember to update your config files in /etc/apache2
as --datadir has been changed to /var/www/localhost.

Note that a forthcoming GLSA-200310-03 will address similar issues
in Apache 1.x.


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