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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: httpd24-apr security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:0316-01
Product: Red Hat Software Collections
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0316
Issue date: 2018-02-13
CVE Names: CVE-2017-12613
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1. Summary:
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.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - x86_64
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.7) - x86_64
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - x86_64
3. 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)
4. 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.
5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1506523 - CVE-2017-12613 apr: Out-of-bounds array deref in apr_time_exp*() functions
6. Package List:
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):
Source:
httpd24-apr-1.5.1-1.el6.1.src.rpm
x86_64:
httpd24-apr-1.5.1-1.el6.1.x86_64.rpm
httpd24-apr-debuginfo-1.5.1-1.el6.1.x86_64.rpm
httpd24-apr-devel-1.5.1-1.el6.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.7):
Source:
httpd24-apr-1.5.1-1.el6.1.src.rpm
x86_64:
httpd24-apr-1.5.1-1.el6.1.x86_64.rpm
httpd24-apr-debuginfo-1.5.1-1.el6.1.x86_64.rpm
httpd24-apr-devel-1.5.1-1.el6.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):
Source:
httpd24-apr-1.5.1-1.el6.1.src.rpm
x86_64:
httpd24-apr-1.5.1-1.el6.1.x86_64.rpm
httpd24-apr-debuginfo-1.5.1-1.el6.1.x86_64.rpm
httpd24-apr-devel-1.5.1-1.el6.1.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/
7. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-12613
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
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