Mark Dowd discovered an off-by-one buffer overflow in the mod_rewrite module’s ldap scheme handling. On systems which activate “RewriteEngine on”, a remote attacker could exploit certain rewrite rules to crash Apache, or potentially even execute arbitrary code (this has not been verified).
“RewriteEngine on” is disabled by default. Systems which have this directive disabled are not affected at all.
28 July 2006
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Mark Dowd discovered an off-by-one buffer overflow in the mod_rewrite module’s ldap scheme handling. On systems which activate “RewriteEngine on”, a remote attacker could exploit certain rewrite rules to crash Apache, or potentially even execute arbitrary code (this has not been verified).
“RewriteEngine on” is disabled by default. Systems which have this directive disabled are not affected at all.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.
Vulmon