Synopsis

Important: httpd24-httpd security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for httpd24-httpd is now available for Red Hat Software Collections.

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):

• It was discovered that httpd used the value of the Proxy header from HTTP requests to initialize the HTTP_PROXY environment variable for CGI scripts, which in turn was incorrectly used by certain HTTP client implementations to configure the proxy for outgoing HTTP requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to redirect HTTP requests performed by a CGI script to an attacker-controlled proxy via a malicious HTTP request. (CVE-2016-5387)

Note: After this update, httpd will no longer pass the value of the Proxy request header to scripts via the HTTP_PROXY environment variable.

• A flaw was found in the way httpd performed client authentication using X.509 client certificates. When the HTTP/2 protocol was enabled, a remote attacker could use this flaw to access resources protected by certificate authentication without providing a valid client certificate. (CVE-2016-4979)

Red Hat would like to thank Scott Geary (VendHQ) for reporting CVE-2016-5387 and Apache Software Foundation for reporting CVE-2016-4979. Upstream acknowledges Erki Aring (Liewenthal Electronics Ltd) as the original reporter of CVE-2016-4979.

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 Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.1 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1352476 - CVE-2016-4979 httpd: X509 client certificate authentication bypass using HTTP/2
• BZ - 1353755 - CVE-2016-5387 Apache HTTPD: sets environmental variable based on user supplied Proxy request header

CVEs

• CVE-2016-4979
• CVE-2016-5387

References