ALAS-2018-1085

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2011-2767  

mod_perl allows attackers to execute arbitrary Perl code by placing it in a user-owned .htaccess file, because (contrary to the documentation) there is no configuration option that permits Perl code for the administrator's control of HTTP request processing without also permitting unprivileged users to run Perl code in the context of the user account that runs Apache HTTP Server processes.(CVE-2011-2767)

ALAS-2018-1085


Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2018-1085
Advisory Release Date: 2018-10-03 02:54 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2018-10-04 22:01 Pacific
Severity: Important
References: CVE-2011-2767 

Issue Overview:

mod_perl allows attackers to execute arbitrary Perl code by placing it in a user-owned .htaccess file, because (contrary to the documentation) there is no configuration option that permits Perl code for the administrator's control of HTTP request processing without also permitting unprivileged users to run Perl code in the context of the user account that runs Apache HTTP Server processes.(CVE-2011-2767)


Affected Packages:

mod_perl, mod24_perl


Issue Correction:
Run yum update mod_perl to update your system if you are running httpd (2.2).
Run yum update mod24_perl to update your system if you are running httpd24 (2.4).

New Packages:
i686:
    mod24_perl-2.0.7-7.20.amzn1.i686
    mod24_perl-devel-2.0.7-7.20.amzn1.i686
    mod24_perl-debuginfo-2.0.7-7.20.amzn1.i686
    mod_perl-debuginfo-2.0.7-7.28.amzn1.i686
    mod_perl-devel-2.0.7-7.28.amzn1.i686
    mod_perl-2.0.7-7.28.amzn1.i686

src:
    mod24_perl-2.0.7-7.20.amzn1.src
    mod_perl-2.0.7-7.28.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    mod24_perl-devel-2.0.7-7.20.amzn1.x86_64
    mod24_perl-2.0.7-7.20.amzn1.x86_64
    mod24_perl-debuginfo-2.0.7-7.20.amzn1.x86_64
    mod_perl-2.0.7-7.28.amzn1.x86_64
    mod_perl-debuginfo-2.0.7-7.28.amzn1.x86_64
    mod_perl-devel-2.0.7-7.28.amzn1.x86_64