Use After Free Affecting httpd package, versions <0:2.2.15-60.0.1.el6_9.6


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
97.42% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE6-HTTPD-2517630
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed18 Sept 2017

Introduced: 18 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-9798  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:6 httpd to version 0:2.2.15-60.0.1.el6_9.6 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2017-2972.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream httpd package and not the httpd package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

Apache httpd allows remote attackers to read secret data from process memory if the Limit directive can be set in a user's .htaccess file, or if httpd.conf has certain misconfigurations, aka Optionsbleed. This affects the Apache HTTP Server through 2.2.34 and 2.4.x through 2.4.27. The attacker sends an unauthenticated OPTIONS HTTP request when attempting to read secret data. This is a use-after-free issue and thus secret data is not always sent, and the specific data depends on many factors including configuration. Exploitation with .htaccess can be blocked with a patch to the ap_limit_section function in server/core.c.

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