[slackware-security] httpd

New httpd packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to
fix security issues.

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog:

patches/packages/httpd-2.4.25-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded.
This update fixes the following security issues:

• CVE-2016-8740: mod_http2: Mitigate DoS memory exhaustion via endless
  CONTINUATION frames.
• CVE-2016-5387: core: Mitigate [f]cgi “httpoxy” issues.
• CVE-2016-2161: mod_auth_digest: Prevent segfaults during client entry
  allocation when the shared memory space is exhausted.
• CVE-2016-0736: mod_session_crypto: Authenticate the session data/cookie
  with a MAC (SipHash) to prevent deciphering or tampering with a padding
  oracle attack.
• CVE-2016-8743: Enforce HTTP request grammar corresponding to RFC7230 for
  request lines and request headers, to prevent response splitting and
  cache pollution by malicious clients or downstream proxies.
  For more information, see:
  https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2016-8740
  https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2016-5387
  https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2016-2161
  https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2016-0736
  https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2016-8743
  (* Security fix *)

Where to find the new packages:

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab
(http://osuosl.org) for donating FTP and rsync hosting
to the Slackware project! :-)

Also see the “Get Slack” section on http://slackware.com for
additional mirror sites near you.

Updated package for Slackware 14.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.0/patches/packages/httpd-2.4.25-i486-1_slack14.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.0/patches/packages/httpd-2.4.25-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware 14.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/httpd-2.4.25-i486-1_slack14.1.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/httpd-2.4.25-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz

Updated package for Slackware 14.2:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.2/patches/packages/httpd-2.4.25-i586-1_slack14.2.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.2:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.2/patches/packages/httpd-2.4.25-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz

Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/n/httpd-2.4.25-i586-1.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/n/httpd-2.4.25-x86_64-1.txz

MD5 signatures:

Slackware 14.0 package:
186e15ba143536daa3314076002c7821 httpd-2.4.25-i486-1_slack14.0.txz

Slackware x86_64 14.0 package:
f9eb3bf2a68a9bc8637a8d53a26ab6dd httpd-2.4.25-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz

Slackware 14.1 package:
e416a15941f2c8c0eaebbd63e69164ff httpd-2.4.25-i486-1_slack14.1.txz

Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
f1b4ccd7391b58bf9f78648c8c3c86b4 httpd-2.4.25-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz

Slackware 14.2 package:
18e672179bd4136eea419fbcdf1d587b httpd-2.4.25-i586-1_slack14.2.txz

Slackware x86_64 14.2 package:
250aa6c0782aefd28539e3c3f2ddde95 httpd-2.4.25-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz

Slackware -current package:
732e51e650d3287f4f415a0536c9c8fe n/httpd-2.4.25-i586-1.txz

Slackware x86_64 -current package:
ab4f1612c10531fce830aa1f562a9dd5 n/httpd-2.4.25-x86_64-1.txz

Installation instructions:

Upgrade the package as root:
> upgradepkg httpd-2.4.25-i586-1_slack14.2.txz

Then, restart Apache httpd:

> /etc/rc.d/rc.httpd stop
> /etc/rc.d/rc.httpd start