CVE-2016-8743

El servidor HTTP Apache, en todas las distribuciones anteriores a la 2.2.32 y la 2.4.25 era liberal en el espacio en blanco aceptado de peticiones y enviado en lineas y cabeceras de respuesta. La aceptación de estos comportamientos diferentes representaba un problema a nivel de seguridad cuando httpd participa en cualquier cadena de proxies o interactúa con servidores de aplicaciones backend, ya sea mediante mod_proxy o utilizando mecanismos CGI convencionales y puede dar lugar al tráfico de peticiones, división de respuestas y contaminación de la caché.

It was discovered that the HTTP parser in httpd incorrectly allowed certain characters not permitted by the HTTP protocol specification to appear unencoded in HTTP request headers. If httpd was used in conjunction with a proxy or backend server that interpreted those characters differently, a remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to inject data into HTTP responses, resulting in proxy cache poisoning.

The httpd packages provide the Apache HTTP Server, a powerful, efficient, and extensible web server. Security Fix: It was discovered that the mod_session_crypto module of httpd did not use any mechanisms to verify integrity of the encrypted session data stored in the user's browser. A remote attacker could use this flaw to decrypt and modify session data using a padding oracle attack. It was discovered that the mod_auth_digest module of httpd did not properly check for memory allocation failures. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause httpd child processes to repeatedly crash if the server used HTTP digest authentication.