Important: httpd security update

Topic

An update for httpd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Telco Extended Update Support, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

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 httpd packages provide the Apache HTTP Server, a powerful, efficient, and extensible web server.

Security Fix(es):

• httpd: mod_lua: Possible buffer overflow when parsing multipart content (CVE-2021-44790)
• httpd: Errors encountered during the discarding of request body lead to HTTP request smuggling (CVE-2022-22720)

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

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2034674 - CVE-2021-44790 httpd: mod_lua: Possible buffer overflow when parsing multipart content
• BZ - 2064321 - CVE-2022-22720 httpd: Errors encountered during the discarding of request body lead to HTTP request smuggling

CVEs

• CVE-2021-44790
• CVE-2022-22720

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important