gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200705-04.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200705-04">
  <title>Apache mod_perl: Denial of Service</title>
  <synopsis>
    The mod_perl Apache module is vulnerable to a Denial of Service when
    processing regular expressions.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">mod_perl</product>
  <announced>May 02, 2007</announced>
  <revised>May 02, 2007: 02</revised>
  <bug>172676</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="www-apache/mod_perl" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.0.3-r1</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="rge">1.30</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.0.3-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Mod_perl is an Apache module that embeds the Perl interpreter within
    the server, allowing Perl-based web-applications to be created.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Alex Solvey discovered that the "path_info" variable used in file
    RegistryCooker.pm (mod_perl 2.x) or file PerlRun.pm (mod_perl 1.x), is
    not properly escaped before being processed.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could send a specially crafted URL to the vulnerable
    server, possibly resulting in a massive resource consumption.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All mod_perl 1.x users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=www-apache/mod_perl-1.30&quot;</code>
    <p>
    All mod_perl 2.x users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=www-apache/mod_perl-2.0.3-r1&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1349">CVE-2007-1349</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:53:36 +0000">
    falco
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:28:21 +0000">
    vorlon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:05:17 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>