[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: httpd-2.4.6-2.fc19

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-13994
2013-08-02 02:13:19
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Name        : httpd
Product     : Fedora 19
Version     : 2.4.6
Release     : 2.fc19
URL         : http://httpd.apache.org/
Summary     : Apache HTTP Server
Description :
The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful, efficient, and extensible
web server.

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Update Information:

This update contains the latest release of the Apache HTTP Server, version 2.4.6.

Two security issues are resolved in this update:

- mod_dav: Sending a MERGE request against a URI handled by mod_dav_svn could trigger a segfault. (CVE-2013-1896)

- mod_session_dbd: Make sure that dirty flag is respected when saving. This changes the format of the updatesession SQL statement. Existing configurations must be changed. (CVE-2013-2249)

Numerous bug fixes and minor enhancements are also included; for more information see:

http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/CHANGES_2.4.6
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Jul 31 2013 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza at redhat.com> - 2.4.6-2
- revert fix for dumping vhosts twice
* Mon Jul 22 2013 Joe Orton <jorton at redhat.com> - 2.4.6-1
- update to 2.4.6
- mod_ssl: use revised NPN API (r1487772)
* Thu Jul 11 2013 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza at redhat.com> - 2.4.4-12
- mod_unique_id: replace use of hostname + pid with PRNG output (#976666)
- apxs: mention -p option in manpage
* Tue Jul  2 2013 Joe Orton <jorton at redhat.com> - 2.4.4-11
- add patch for aarch64 (Dennis Gilmore, #925558)
* Mon Jul  1 2013 Joe Orton <jorton at redhat.com> - 2.4.4-10
- remove duplicate apxs man page from httpd-tools
* Mon Jun 17 2013 Joe Orton <jorton at redhat.com> - 2.4.4-9
- remove zombie dbmmanage script
* Fri May 31 2013 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza at redhat.com> - 2.4.4-8
- return 400 Bad Request on malformed Host header
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #983549 - CVE-2013-1896 httpd: mod_dav DoS (httpd child process crash) via a URI MERGE request with source URI not handled by mod_dav
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=983549
  [ 2 ] Bug #987543 - CVE-2013-2249 httpd: mod_session_dbd session fixation flaw
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=987543
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update httpd' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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