RHSA-2018:2825 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for rh-perl526-mod_perl 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

Mod_perl incorporates a Perl interpreter into the Apache web server, such that the Apache HTTP server can directly execute Perl code.

Security Fix(es):

• mod_perl: arbitrary Perl code execution in the context of the user account via a user-owned .htaccess (CVE-2011-2767)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.7 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.6 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.5 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.5 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.4 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.3 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.3 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for ARM) 1 aarch64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1623265 - CVE-2011-2767 mod_perl: arbitrary Perl code execution in the context of the user account via a user-owned .htaccess

CVEs

• CVE-2011-2767

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important