USN-133-1: Apache utility vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-133-1

26th May, 2005

apache vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

  • Ubuntu 4.10

Details

A buffer overflow was discovered in the "htpasswd" utility. This could
be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user
invoking htpasswd. This is only a security vulnerability if you have a
website that offers a public interface to htpasswd without checking
the input beforehand; however, this is very unusual.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:

Ubuntu 4.10:
apache-utils

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

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References

http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/17413