Bug 440758 (CVE-2012-4557)

Summary:	<www-servers/apache-2.2.22: mod_proxy_ajp worker moved to error state when timeout exceeded (CVE-2012-4557)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	apache-bugs, mail, patrick, pva
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_22.html#2.2.22
Whiteboard:	B3 [noglsa]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2012-11-01 15:43:43 UTC

From https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=871685 :

When mod_proxy_ajp sends a request to a worker node and the time to process that request exceeds 
the configured timeout, the worker node will be marked as in the error state, stopping all traffic 
to the node until it is flagged as up again. A remote attacker could use this flaw to trigger a 
temporary denial of service attack, provided they were able to create a request that caused 
sufficient processing time to exceed the timeout threshold.

References:

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1227298
http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_22.html#2.2.22

According to upstream security page, this affected versions 2.2.12 - 2.2.21.

Comment 1 Sean Amoss (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-11-10 20:33:34 UTC

This was fixed in =www-servers/apache-2.2.22 and there was already a GLSA [1] advising users to update to =www-servers/apache-2.2.22-r1. 

Closing noglsa. 

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201206-25.xml