[ale] Security Alert: DoS against Apache

[krum at smyrnacable.net (Kevin Krumwiede)]

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From: Jesse Tie-Ten-Quee <highos at linuxfromscratch.org>
To: ale at ale.org
To: lfs-security at linuxfromscratch.org
Subject: DoS: Apache 1.3 all versions including 1.3.24, Apache 2 all versions up to 2.0.36
Date: 18 Jun 2002 03:06:15 -0700

Yo,

http://httpd.apache.org/info/security_bulletin_20020617.txt

"In Apache 1.3 the issue causes a stack overflow.  Due to the nature of
the overflow on 32-bit Unix platforms this will cause a segmentation
violation and the child will terminate.  However on 64-bit platforms the
overflow can be controlled and so for platforms that store return
addresses on the stack it is likely that it is further exploitable. This
could allow arbitrary code to be run on the server as the user the
Apache children are set to run as."

No patches or new releases yet, afaik.

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Jesse Tie-Ten-Quee  ( highos at linuxfromscratch dot org )
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