Re: [us...@httpd] About apache2 vulnerability with apr and apr-utils. How bad is it?

2009-09-13 Thread David Taveras
Greetings William, On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 8:18 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.netwrote: No, you misinterpreted; the application developer must expose a DoS/memory exhaustion vector; where that exists, and the affected version of APR is used, and the information written to the

[us...@httpd] About apache2 vulnerability with apr and apr-utils. How bad is it?

2009-09-10 Thread David Taveras
Hello, I run apache 2.2.9 apache 2.2.11 both with apr-1.2.11p2 apr-util-1.2.10p2 According to the CVE at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2412 only 0.9.x and 1.3.x are affected . Could anybody confirm that this is so? If not.. how bad is this vulnerability to a

Re: [us...@httpd] About apache2 vulnerability with apr and apr-utils. How bad is it?

2009-09-10 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
David Taveras wrote: I run apache 2.2.9 apache 2.2.11 both with apr-1.2.11p2 apr-util-1.2.10p2 According to the CVE at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2412 only 0.9.x and 1.3.x are affected . Could anybody confirm that this is so? If not.. how bad is this

Re: [us...@httpd] About apache2 vulnerability with apr and apr-utils. How bad is it?

2009-09-10 Thread David Taveras
Hello William. You mentioned as far as APR causing a DoS, how about the execution of arbitrary code through apache as the CVE says..? Thank you Daniel On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 6:54 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.netwrote: David Taveras wrote: I run apache 2.2.9 apache 2.2.11

Re: [us...@httpd] About apache2 vulnerability with apr and apr-utils. How bad is it?

2009-09-10 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
David Taveras wrote: You mentioned as far as APR causing a DoS, how about the execution of arbitrary code through apache as the CVE says..? No, you misinterpreted; the application developer must expose a DoS/memory exhaustion vector; where that exists, and the affected version of APR is used,