Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title Apache HTTP Server vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-3627-1 First vendor Publication 2018-04-19
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2018-04-19
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 17.10 - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in the Apache HTTP Server.

Software Description: - apache2: Apache HTTP server

Details:

Alex Nichols and Jakob Hirsch discovered that the Apache HTTP Server mod_authnz_ldap module incorrectly handled missing charset encoding headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause the server to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-15710)

Elar Lang discovered that the Apache HTTP Server incorrectly handled certain characters specified in . A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to upload certain files, contrary to expectations. (CVE-2017-15715)

It was discovered that the Apache HTTP Server mod_session module incorrectly handled certain headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to influence session data. (CVE-2018-1283)

Robert Swiecki discovered that the Apache HTTP Server incorrectly handled certain requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause the server to crash, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2018-1301)

Robert Swiecki discovered that the Apache HTTP Server mod_cache_socache module incorrectly handled certain headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause the server to crash, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2018-1303)

Nicolas Daniels discovered that the Apache HTTP Server incorrectly generated the nonce when creating HTTP Digest authentication challenges. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to replay HTTP requests across a cluster of servers. (CVE-2018-1312)

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 17.10:
apache2-bin 2.4.27-2ubuntu4.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
apache2-bin 2.4.18-2ubuntu3.8

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
apache2-bin 2.4.7-1ubuntu4.20

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3627-1
CVE-2017-15710, CVE-2017-15715, CVE-2018-1283, CVE-2018-1301,
CVE-2018-1303, CVE-2018-1312

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apache2/2.4.27-2ubuntu4.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apache2/2.4.18-2ubuntu3.8
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apache2/2.4.7-1ubuntu4.20

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3627-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
20 % CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25)
20 % CWE-287 Improper Authentication
20 % CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
20 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
20 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 243
Application 1
Application 1
Application 1
Application 1
Os 8
Os 3
Os 1
Os 5
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-6744ca470d.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-08-17 Name : The remote PhotonOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : PhotonOS_PHSA-2018-1_0-0126.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-07-24 Name : The remote PhotonOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : PhotonOS_PHSA-2018-2_0-0037.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-07-24 Name : The remote PhotonOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : PhotonOS_PHSA-2018-2_0-0039.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-07-03 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1212.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-07-03 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1213.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-05-31 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1389.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-05-29 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1151.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-05-29 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1152.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-05-14 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-e6d9251471.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-05-04 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2018-1004.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-04-06 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-375e3244b6.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-04-04 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4164.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-03-30 Name : The remote web server is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.
File : apache_2_4_30.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-03-27 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_f38187e72f6e11e88f07b499baebfeaf.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2019-04-10 21:21:47
  • Multiple Updates
2018-05-02 09:21:18
  • Multiple Updates
2018-04-20 21:21:45
  • Multiple Updates
2018-04-19 17:19:20
  • First insertion