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Source: www.securityspace.com
Title: Apache-SSL overflow
ID: 10918
Category: Gain a shell remotely
URL: http://www.securityspace.com/smysecu....html?id=10918
Summary: Checks for version of Apache-SSL
Description:
The remote host is using a version of Apache-SSL which is
older than 1.47
This version is vulnerable to a buffer overflow which,
albeit difficult to exploit, may allow an attacker
to obtain a shell on this host.
Solution : Upgrade to version 1.47 or newer
Risk factor : High
Is regular apache affected?
I don't think so... at www.apache.org there was no panic but at http://www.apache-ssl.org there was...
source: http://www.apache-ssl.org/advisory-20020301.txt
It's only a prob with Apache-SSLQuote:
Apache-SSL buffer overflow condition (all versions prior to 1.3.22+1.46)
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Synopsis
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A buffer overflow was recently found in mod_ssl, see:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archiv...2-02/0313.html
for details. The offending code in mod_ssl was, in fact, derived from
Apache-SSL, and Apache-SSL is also vulnerable.
As in mod_ssl, this flaw can only be exploited if client certificates
are being used, and the certificate in question must be issued by a
trusted CA.
Fix
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Download Apache-SSL 1.3.22+1.47 from the usual places (see
http://www.apache-ssl.org/).
(note that 1.46 had a bug in it, so you should use 1.47)
Acknowledgements
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Thanks to Ed Moyle for finding the flaw.
Rant
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No thanks to anyone at all for alerting me before going
public. Cheers, guys.
Ben Laurie, March 1, 2002.