Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-156 - ModSecurity before 2.7.3 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, send HTTP requests to intranet servers, or cause a denial of service via an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, aka an XML External Entity vulnerability. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2013:156
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : apache-mod_security
Date : April 29, 2013
Affected: Business Server 1.0, Enterprise Server 5.0
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Problem Description:
A vulnerability has been found and corrected in apache-mod_security:
ModSecurity before 2.7.3 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary
files, send HTTP requests to intranet servers, or cause a denial
of service (CPU and memory consumption) via an XML external entity
declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, aka an XML
External Entity (XXE) vulnerability (CVE-2013-1915).
The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
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References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-1915
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Updated Packages:
Mandriva Enterprise Server 5:
301f6d87bb0605dcfbae4ab94da0c32a mes5/i586/apache-mod_security-2.5.12-0.4mdvmes5.2.i586.rpm
d2336ca0da3dd8077819dee6abea2f6e mes5/i586/mlogc-2.5.12-0.4mdvmes5.2.i586.rpm
472a4e549a187d2020b21ab930d81b13 mes5/SRPMS/apache-mod_security-2.5.12-0.4mdvmes5.2.src.rpm
Mandriva Enterprise Server 5/X86_64:
3b9b65c037b35917bf066b9a543d10fb mes5/x86_64/apache-mod_security-2.5.12-0.4mdvmes5.2.x86_64.rpm
edc3c3e1d31c5f0b2c204fc197d5e7b0 mes5/x86_64/mlogc-2.5.12-0.4mdvmes5.2.x86_64.rpm
472a4e549a187d2020b21ab930d81b13 mes5/SRPMS/apache-mod_security-2.5.12-0.4mdvmes5.2.src.rpm
Mandriva Business Server 1/X86_64:
ce1e86534b8d33dafbdc2c25b8ec689b mbs1/x86_64/apache-mod_security-2.6.3-5.2.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
d125ba595ee374b31b6f91fed316f30e mbs1/x86_64/mlogc-2.6.3-5.2.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
77a7cb951e047e046ce5b1517c843b9f mbs1/SRPMS/apache-mod_security-2.6.3-5.2.mbs1.src.rpm
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
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