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Slackware-12.0 ChangeLog (2012-02-08)
Wed Feb 8 01:21:42 UTC 2012
Packages
Upgraded
- patches/packages/apr-util-1.4.1-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz
Version bump for httpd upgrade. - patches/packages/httpd-2.2.22-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz
*) SECURITY: CVE-2011-3368 (cve.mitre.org)
Reject requests where the request-URI does not match the HTTP
specification, preventing unexpected expansion of target URLs in
some reverse proxy configurations. [Joe Orton]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2011-3607 (cve.mitre.org)
Fix integer overflow in ap_pregsub() which, when the mod_setenvif module
is enabled, could allow local users to gain privileges via a .htaccess
file. [Stefan Fritsch, Greg Ames]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2011-4317 (cve.mitre.org)
Resolve additional cases of URL rewriting with ProxyPassMatch or
RewriteRule, where particular request-URIs could result in undesired
backend network exposure in some configurations.
[Joe Orton]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2012-0021 (cve.mitre.org)
mod_log_config: Fix segfault (crash) when the '%{cookiename}C' log format
string is in use and a client sends a nameless, valueless cookie, causing
a denial of service. The issue existed since version 2.2.17. PR 52256.
[Rainer Canavan <rainer-apache 7val com>]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2012-0031 (cve.mitre.org)
Fix scoreboard issue which could allow an unprivileged child process
could cause the parent to crash at shutdown rather than terminate
cleanly. [Joe Orton]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2012-0053 (cve.mitre.org)
Fix an issue in error responses that could expose “httpOnly” cookies
when no custom ErrorDocument is specified for status code 400.
[Eric Covener]
For more information, see:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-3368
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-3607
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4317
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-0021
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-0031
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-0053
(* Security fix *) - patches/packages/php-5.3.10-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz
Fixed arbitrary remote code execution vulnerability reported by Stefan
Esser, CVE-2012-0830. (Stas, Dmitry)
For more information, see:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-0830
(* Security fix *) - patches/packages/proftpd-1.3.4a-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz
This update fixes a use-after-free() memory corruption error,
and possibly other unspecified issues.
For more information, see:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4130
(* Security fix *) - patches/packages/vsftpd-2.3.5-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz
Minor version bump, this also works around a hard to trigger heap overflow
in glibc (glibc zoneinfo caching vuln). For there to be any possibility
to trigger the glibc bug within vsftpd, the non-default option
“chroot_local_user” must be set in /etc/vsftpd.conf.
Considered 1) low severity (hard to exploit) and 2) not a vsftpd bug
Nevertheless:
(* Security fix *)