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Fedora Core 2 2004-204: 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-2004-204 (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 security fixes for a remotely triggerable memory leak
(CVE CVE-2004-0493), and a buffer overflow in mod_ssl which can be
triggered only by a (trusted) client certificate with a long subject
DN field (CVE CVE-2004-0488).

Solution : http://www.fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA-2004-204.shtml
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID:

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