ALAS-2015-578

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2015-3183  

Multiple flaws were found in the way httpd parsed HTTP requests and responses using chunked transfer encoding. A remote attacker could use these flaws to create a specially crafted request, which httpd would decode differently from an HTTP proxy software in front of it, possibly leading to HTTP request smuggling attacks.

ALAS-2015-578


Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2015-578
Advisory Release Date: 2015-08-17 12:23 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2015-08-17 12:23 Pacific
Severity: Medium
References: CVE-2015-3183 

Issue Overview:

Multiple flaws were found in the way httpd parsed HTTP requests and responses using chunked transfer encoding. A remote attacker could use these flaws to create a specially crafted request, which httpd would decode differently from an HTTP proxy software in front of it, possibly leading to HTTP request smuggling attacks.


Affected Packages:

httpd


Issue Correction:
Run yum update httpd to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    httpd-devel-2.2.31-1.6.amzn1.i686
    mod_ssl-2.2.31-1.6.amzn1.i686
    httpd-tools-2.2.31-1.6.amzn1.i686
    httpd-debuginfo-2.2.31-1.6.amzn1.i686
    httpd-2.2.31-1.6.amzn1.i686

noarch:
    httpd-manual-2.2.31-1.6.amzn1.noarch

src:
    httpd-2.2.31-1.6.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    httpd-debuginfo-2.2.31-1.6.amzn1.x86_64
    httpd-devel-2.2.31-1.6.amzn1.x86_64
    httpd-tools-2.2.31-1.6.amzn1.x86_64
    mod_ssl-2.2.31-1.6.amzn1.x86_64
    httpd-2.2.31-1.6.amzn1.x86_64