CVE-2014-3583
A buffer overflow flaw was found in mod_proxy_fcgi's handle_headers() function. A malicious FastCGI server that httpd is configured to connect to could send a carefully crafted response that would cause an httpd child process handling the request to crash.
Find out more about CVE-2014-3583 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
Statement
Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of httpd as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7, Red Hat Software Collections 1, Red Hat JBoss Web Server 1 and 2, and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | High |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
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Red Hat Security Errata
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Common for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (mod_proxy_fcgi) | RHSA-2015:1855 | 2015-10-01 |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.2 for CentOS | RHSA-2015:1858 | 2015-10-01 |
Affected Packages State
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux | httpd24-httpd | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss EWS 2 | httpd | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss EWS 1 | httpd | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss EAP 6 | httpd | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | httpd | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | httpd | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | httpd | Not affected |
| Red Hat Directory Server 8 | httpd | Not affected |