Moderate: httpd:2.4 security and bug fix update

Synopsis

Moderate: httpd:2.4 security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

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.

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.

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

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

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

CVEs

• CVE-2019-0217
• CVE-2019-0220

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.1_release_notes/