Moderate: httpd24-httpd and httpd24-mod_md security and enhancement update

Synopsis

Moderate: httpd24-httpd and httpd24-mod_md security and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for httpd24-httpd and httpd24-mod_md is now available for Red Hat Software Collections.

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_rewrite configurations vulnerable to open redirect (CVE-2020-1927)
  
• httpd: mod_rewrite potential open redirect (CVE-2019-10098)
  

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 Software Collections 3.5 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 Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1743959 - CVE-2019-10098 httpd: mod_rewrite potential open redirect
• BZ - 1820761 - CVE-2020-1927 httpd: mod_rewrite configurations vulnerable to open redirect

CVEs

• CVE-2019-10098
• CVE-2020-1927

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_software_collections/3/html/3.5_release_notes/