Bug 1120599 (CVE-2014-0117)

Summary:	CVE-2014-0117 httpd: mod_proxy denial of service
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Murray McAllister <mmcallis>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	anmiller, bdunne, cdewolf, dajohnso, dandread, darran.lofthouse, fnasser, gmccullo, grocha, huwang, jason.greene, jawilson, jclere, jdoyle, jfrey, jkaluza, jorton, jprause, jrafanie, jvlcek, lgao, mjc, mmaslano, myarboro, obarenbo, pahan, pgier, pslavice, rmeggins, rsvoboda, vtunka, webstack-team, weli, xlecauch
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	httpd 2.4.10	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	A denial of service flaw was found in the mod_proxy httpd module. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to a server configured as a reverse proxy using a threaded Multi-Processing Modules (MPM) that would cause the httpd child process to crash.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2019-06-08 02:34:03 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
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Bug Depends On:	1120607, 1120608, 1120614, 1120938, 1121037, 1121038
Bug Blocks:	1120610, 1120623

Description Murray McAllister 2014-07-17 09:08:42 UTC

The following flaw has been fixed in the Apache HTTP Server:

"A flaw was found in mod_proxy. A remote attacker could send a carefully crafted request to a server configured as a reverse proxy, and cause the child process to crash. This could lead to a denial of service against a threaded MPM."

External References:

http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html

Comment 2 Murray McAllister 2014-07-17 09:39:47 UTC

Created httpd tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1120614]

Comment 6 Vincent Danen 2014-07-18 13:16:25 UTC

Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of httpd as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6, Red Hat JBoss Web Server, and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. These products include httpd 2.2, and only httpd versions 2.4.6 through 2.4.9 include the vulnerable code.

Comment 8 Tomas Hoger 2014-07-23 07:03:26 UTC

Upstream commit:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1610674

2.4 backport:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1610737

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2014-07-23 10:00:50 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2014:0922 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0922.html

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2014-07-23 10:01:37 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2014:0921 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0921.html

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2014-07-25 10:03:36 UTC

httpd-2.4.10-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 12 Martin Prpič 2014-07-28 11:28:31 UTC

IssueDescription:

A denial of service flaw was found in the mod_proxy httpd module. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to a server configured as a reverse proxy using a threaded Multi-Processing Modules (MPM) that would cause the httpd child process to crash.

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2014-08-15 02:47:02 UTC

httpd-2.4.10-1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.