Synopsis

Important: httpd24-apr security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for httpd24-apr 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 Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is a portability library used by the Apache HTTP Server and other projects. It provides a free library of C data structures and routines.

Security Fix(es):

• An out-of-bounds array dereference was found in apr_time_exp_get(). An attacker could abuse an unvalidated usage of this function to cause a denial of service or potentially lead to data leak. (CVE-2017-12613)

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

Applications using the APR libraries, such as httpd, must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Affected Products

• 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 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1506523 - CVE-2017-12613 apr: Out-of-bounds array deref in apr_time_exp*() functions

CVEs

• CVE-2017-12613

References