Synopsis
Important: httpd24-httpd and httpd24-mod_auth_mellon security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Important
Topic
An update for httpd24-httpd and httpd24-mod_auth_mellon is now available for Red Hat Software Collections.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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.
Description
The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful, efficient, and extensible web server. The httpd24 packages provide a recent stable release of version 2.4 of the Apache HTTP Server, along with the mod_auth_kerb module.
Security Fix(es):
- httpd: privilege escalation from modules scripts (CVE-2019-0211)
- mod_auth_mellon: authentication bypass in ECP flow (CVE-2019-3878)
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.
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.
Affected Products
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.6 x86_64
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.6 s390x
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.6 ppc64le
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.5 x86_64
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.5 s390x
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.5 ppc64le
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.4 x86_64
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.4 s390x
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.4 ppc64le
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7 s390x
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7 ppc64le
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for ARM) 1 aarch64
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
Fixes
- BZ - 1691126 - CVE-2019-3878 mod_auth_mellon: authentication bypass in ECP flow
- BZ - 1694980 - CVE-2019-0211 httpd: privilege escalation from modules scripts
CVEs
References