FreeBSD Apache Multiple Vulnerabilities Fix Available
FreeBSD has issued updated version of its Apache package. This release considered as important and encourage users of all prior versions to upgrade.
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the balancer-manager in mod_proxy_balancer for Apache HTTP Server 2.2.x allows remote attackers to gain privileges via unpsecified vectors.
The ap_proxy_http_process_response function in mod_proxy_http.c in the mod_proxy module in the Apache HTTP Server 2.0.63 and 2.2.8 does not limit the number of forwarded interim responses, which allows remote HTTP servers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of interim responses.
How do I upgrade Apache under FreeBSD?
Simply run the following two commands:
# portsnap fetch extract
# portupgrade -a
# portversion
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