6 - RHSA-2019:3436

Problem Description:

An update for the httpd:2.4 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

3. Description:

The httpd packages provide the Apache HTTP Server, a powerful, efficient, and extensible web server.

Security Fix(es):

* httpd: mod_auth_digest: access control bypass due to race condition (CVE-2019-0217)

* httpd: URL normalization inconsistency (CVE-2019-0220)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

4. Solution:

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

After installing the updated packages, the httpd daemon will be restarted automatically.

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1669221 - `ExtendedStatus Off` directive when using mod_systemd causes systemctl to hang 1673022 - httpd can not be started with mod_md enabled 1695020 - CVE-2019-0217 httpd: mod_auth_digest: access control bypass due to race condition 1695036 - CVE-2019-0220 httpd: URL normalization inconsistency 1724549 - httpd response contains garbage in Content-Type header 1730721 - absolute path used for default state and runtime dir by default