RHSA-2024:4938 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for httpd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Advanced Update Support.

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):

• httpd: Substitution encoding issue in mod_rewrite (CVE-2024-38474)
• httpd: Improper escaping of output in mod_rewrite (CVE-2024-38475)
• httpd: NULL pointer dereference in mod_proxy (CVE-2024-38477)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, 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 Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2295013 - CVE-2024-38474 httpd: Substitution encoding issue in mod_rewrite
• BZ - 2295014 - CVE-2024-38475 httpd: Improper escaping of output in mod_rewrite
• BZ - 2295016 - CVE-2024-38477 httpd: NULL pointer dereference in mod_proxy

CVEs

• CVE-2024-38474
• CVE-2024-38475
• CVE-2024-38477

References

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