SecurityReason - libapreq2: Denial of Service vulnerability

Advisory Text :

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200604-08
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http://security.gentoo.org/
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Severity: Normal
Title: libapreq2: Denial of Service vulnerability
Date: April 17, 2006
Bugs: #128610
ID: 200604-08

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Synopsis
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A vulnerability has been reported in libapreq2 which could lead to a
Denial of Service.

Background
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libapreq is a shared library with associated modules for manipulating
client request data via the Apache API.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 www-apache/libapreq2 < 2.07 >= 2.07

Description
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A vulnerability has been reported in the apreq_parse_headers() and
apreq_parse_urlencoded() functions of Apache2::Request.

Impact
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A remote attacker could possibly exploit the vulnerability to cause a
Denial of Service by CPU consumption.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All libapreq2 users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apache/libapreq2-2.07"

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2006-0042
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0042
[ 2 ] libapreq2 Changes

http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/httpd/apreq/tags/v2_07/CHANGES?rev=376
998&view=markup

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200604-08.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security (at) gentoo (dot) org [email concealed] or alternatively, you may
file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2006 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0

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