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Fedora Core 2 2004-420: 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-2004-420 (httpd).

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

This update includes the fixes for an issue in mod_ssl which could
lead to a bypass of an SSLCipherSuite setting in directory or location
context (CVE CVE-2004-0885), and a memory consumption denial of
service issue in the handling of request header lines (CVE
CVE-2004-0942).

Solution : http://www.fedoranews.org/blog/index.php?p=71
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID:

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