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Fedora Core 1 2004-117: httpd

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Check for the version of the httpd package

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory FEDORA-2004-117 (httpd).

Apache is a powerful, full-featured, efficient, and freely-available
Web server. Apache is also the most popular Web server on the
Internet.

Update Information:

This update includes the latest stable release of Apache httpd 2.0,
including a security fix for a memory leak in mod_ssl which can be
triggered remotely (CVE CVE-2004-0113), and a fix for escaping of error
log output (CVE CVE-2003-0020).

This update also includes an enhanced version of the mod_cgi module
which fixes a long-standing bug in the handling of stderr output during
CGI script execution.

Solution : http://www.fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA-2004-117.shtml
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID: 9930

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2004 Tenable Network Security

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