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Secunia Advisory SA17036

IBM HTTP Server PCRE and Byte-Range Filter Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory SA17036
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Release Date 2005-10-07
Last Update 2007-07-27
   
Popularity 15,103 views
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact Privilege escalation
DoS
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
IBM HTTP Server 2.x
IBM Rational ClearQuest 6.x
IBM Rational ClearQuest 7.x
IBM Websphere Application Server 4.x
IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x
IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2005-2491 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-2728 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-2970 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

IBM has acknowledged two vulnerabilities in IBM HTTP Server, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service), or by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges via a specially crafted ".htaccess" file.

For more information:
SA16688
SA16559

The vulnerabilities have been reported in versions 2.0.42.2, 2.0.47, and 2.0.47.1.

NOTE: IBM HTTP Server is bundled with IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM Rational ClearQuest.

A memory leak in worker.c when an accept() fails has also been fixed.


Solution
-- IBM HTTP Server Version 2.0.42.2, 2.0.47, and 2.0.47.1 --
Further details available in Customer Area

Changelog
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Original Advisory
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PK11929
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PK13230
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24010709
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PK13891
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PK13980
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PK42216

Other references
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Deep Links
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