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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3913-1 apache2 -- security update

Date Reported:

18 Jul 2017

Affected Packages:

apache2

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 868467.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-9788.

More information:

Robert Swiecki reported that mod_auth_digest does not properly initialize or reset the value placeholder in [Proxy-]Authorization headers of type Digest between successive key=value assignments, leading to information disclosure or denial of service.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.10-10+deb8u10.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.25-3+deb9u2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.27-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your apache2 packages.