RHSA-2018:0316

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2018-02-13 17:19 - Updated: 2025-11-21 18:03
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: httpd24-apr security update
Severity
Important
Notes
Topic: An update for httpd24-apr is now available for Red Hat Software Collections. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Details: The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is a portability library used by the Apache HTTP Server and other projects. It provides a free library of C data structures and routines. Security Fix(es): * An out-of-bounds array dereference was found in apr_time_exp_get(). An attacker could abuse an unvalidated usage of this function to cause a denial of service or potentially lead to data leak. (CVE-2017-12613)
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CVE-2017-12613

An out-of-bounds array dereference was found in apr_time_exp_get(). An attacker could abuse an unvalidated usage of this function to cause a denial of service or potentially lead to data leak.

7.4 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds Read
Vendor Fix For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 Applications using the APR libraries, such as httpd, must be restarted for this update to take effect. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0316
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            "6Server-RHSCL-3.0:httpd24-apr-debuginfo-0:1.5.1-1.el6.1.x86_64",
            "6Server-RHSCL-3.0:httpd24-apr-devel-0:1.5.1-1.el6.1.x86_64",
            "6Workstation-RHSCL-3.0:httpd24-apr-0:1.5.1-1.el6.1.src",
            "6Workstation-RHSCL-3.0:httpd24-apr-0:1.5.1-1.el6.1.x86_64",
            "6Workstation-RHSCL-3.0:httpd24-apr-debuginfo-0:1.5.1-1.el6.1.x86_64",
            "6Workstation-RHSCL-3.0:httpd24-apr-devel-0:1.5.1-1.el6.1.x86_64"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "threats": [
        {
          "category": "impact",
          "details": "Important"
        }
      ],
      "title": "apr: Out-of-bounds array deref in apr_time_exp*() functions"
    }
  ]
}


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