Critical Apache Security Vulnerabilities Impacting Mageia Systems
Summary
Serving WebSocket protocol upgrades over a HTTP/2 connection could result in a Null Pointer dereference, leading to a crash of the server process, degrading performance. (CVE-2024-36387) Encoding problem in mod_proxy in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.59 and earlier allows request URLs with incorrect encoding to be sent to backend services, potentially bypassing authentication via crafted requests. (CVE-2024-38473) Substitution encoding issue in mod_rewrite in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.59 and earlier allows attacker to execute scripts in directories permitted by the configuration but not directly reachable by any URL or source disclosure of scripts meant to only to be executed as CGI. Some RewriteRules that capture and substitute unsafely will now fail unless rewrite flag "UnsafeAllow3F" is specified. (CVE-2024-38474) Improper escaping of output in mod_rewrite in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.59 and earlier allows an attacker to map URLs to filesystem locations that are permitted to be served by the s...
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33353
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/01/4
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/01/6
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/01/7
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/01/8
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/01/9
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/01/10
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/01/11
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/8
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-36387
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-38473
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-38474
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-38475
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-38476
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-38477
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-39573
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-39884
Resolution
MGASA-2024-0258 - Updated apache packages fix security vulnerabilities
SRPMS
- 9/core/apache-2.4.61-1.mga9