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                                    CERT-Renater

                         Note d'Information No. 2008/VULN250
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DATE                      : 25/06/2008

HARDWARE PLATFORM(S)      : /

OPERATING SYSTEM(S)       : Systems running Apache.

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http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/Announcement2.2.html
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Apache HTTP Server 2.2.9 Released

The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache HTTP Server Project are
pleased to announce the release of version 2.2.9 of the Apache HTTP
Server ("Apache").

This version of Apache is principally a bug and security fix release.

The following potential security flaws are addressed:

     * CVE-2008-2364: mod_proxy_http: Better handling of excessive
interim responses from origin server to prevent potential denial of
service and high memory usage. Reported by Ryujiro Shibuya.
     * CVE-2007-6420: mod_proxy_balancer: Prevent CSRF attacks against
the balancer-manager interface.

We consider this release to be the best version of Apache available, and
encourage users of all prior versions to upgrade.

Apache HTTP Server 2.2.9 is available for download from:

     http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi

Apache 2.2 offers numerous enhancements, improvements, and performance
boosts over the 2.0 codebase. For an overview of new features introduced
since 2.0 please see:

     http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/new_features_2_2.html

Please see the CHANGES_2.2 file, linked from the download page, for a
full list of changes. A condensed list, CHANGES_2.2.9 provides the
complete list of changes since 2.2.8. A summary of security
vulnerabilities which were addressed in the previous 2.2.8 and earlier
releases is available:

     http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_22.html

Apache HTTP Server 1.3.41 and 2.0.63 legacy releases are also currently
available. See the corresponding CHANGES files linked from the download
page. The Apache HTTP Project developers strongly encourage all users to
migrate to Apache 2.2, as only limited maintenance is performed for
these legacy releases.

This release includes the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) version 1.3.0
bundled with the tar and zip distributions. The APR libraries libapr and
  libaprutil (and on Win32, libapriconv) must all be updated to ensure
binary compatibility and address many known platform bugs.

This release builds on and extends the Apache 2.0 API. Modules written
for Apache version 2.0 will need to be recompiled in order to run with
Apache 2.2, and require minimal or no source code changes.

     http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/VERSIONING

When upgrading or installing this version of Apache, please bear in mind 
that if you intend to use Apache with one of the threaded MPMs (other
than the Prefork MPM), you must ensure that any modules you will be
using (and the libraries they depend on) are thread-safe.

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