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@@ -1,4 +1,175 @@ -*- coding: utf-8 -*- +Changes with Apache 2.2.12 + + *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-1891 (cve.mitre.org) + Fix a potential Denial-of-Service attack against mod_deflate or other + modules, by forcing the server to consume CPU time in compressing a + large file after a client disconnects. PR 39605. + [Joe Orton, Ruediger Pluem] + + *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-1195 (cve.mitre.org) + Prevent the "Includes" Option from being enabled in an .htaccess + file if the AllowOverride restrictions do not permit it. + [Jonathan Peatfield <j.s.peatfield damtp.cam.ac.uk>, Joe Orton, + Ruediger Pluem, Jeff Trawick] + + *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-1890 (cve.mitre.org) + Fix a potential Denial-of-Service attack against mod_proxy in a + reverse proxy configuration, where a remote attacker can force a + proxy process to consume CPU time indefinitely. [Nick Kew, Joe Orton] + + *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-1191 (cve.mitre.org) + mod_proxy_ajp: Avoid delivering content from a previous request which + failed to send a request body. PR 46949 [Ruediger Pluem] + + *) SECURITY: CVE-2009-0023, CVE-2009-1955, CVE-2009-1956 (cve.mitre.org) + The bundled copy of the APR-util library has been updated, fixing three + different security issues which may affect particular configurations + and third-party modules. + + *) mod_include: fix potential segfault when handling back references + on an empty SSI variable. [Ruediger Pluem, Lars Eilebrecht, Nick Kew] + + *) mod_alias: check sanity in Redirect arguments. + PR 44729 [Sönke Tesch <st kino-fahrplan.de>, Jim Jagielski] + + *) mod_proxy_http: fix Host: header for literal IPv6 addresses. + PR 47177 [Carlos Garcia Braschi <cgbraschi gmail.com>] + + *) mod_rewrite: Remove locking for writing to the rewritelog. + PR 46942 + + *) mod_alias: Ensure Redirect emits HTTP-compliant URLs. + PR 44020 + + *) mod_proxy_http: fix case sensitivity checking transfer encoding + PR 47383 [Ryuzo Yamamoto <ryuzo.yamamoto gmail.com>] + + *) mod_rewrite: Fix the error string returned by RewriteRule. + RewriteRule returned "RewriteCond: bad flag delimiters" when the 3rd + argument of RewriteRule was not started with "[" or not ended with "]". + PR 45082 [Vitaly Polonetsky <m_vitaly topixoft.com>] + + *) mod_proxy: Complete ProxyPassReverse to handle balancer URL's. Given; + BalancerMember balancer://alias http://example.com/foo + ProxyPassReverse /bash balancer://alias/bar + backend url http://example.com/foo/bar/that is now translated /bash/that + [William Rowe] + + *) New piped log syntax: Use "||process args" to launch the given process + without invoking the shell/command interpreter. Use "|$command line" + (the default behavior of "|command line" in 2.2) to invoke using shell, + consuming an additional shell process for the lifetime of the logging + pipe program but granting additional process invocation flexibility. + [William Rowe] + + *) mod_ssl: Add server name indication support (RFC 4366) and better + support for name based virtual hosts with SSL. PR 34607 + [Peter Sylvester <peter.sylvester edelweb.fr>, + Kaspar Brand <asfbugz velox.ch>, Guenter Knauf, Joe Orton, + Ruediger Pluem] + + *) mod_negotiation: Escape pathes of filenames in 406 responses to avoid + HTML injections and HTTP response splitting. PR 46837. + [Geoff Keating <geoffk apple.com>] + + *) mod_include: Prevent a case of SSI timefmt-smashing with filter chains + including multiple INCLUDES filters. PR 39369 [Joe Orton] + + *) mod_rewrite: When evaluating a proxy rule in directory context, do + escape the filename by default. PR 46428 [Joe Orton] + + *) mod_proxy_ajp: Check more strictly that the backend follows the AJP + protocol. [Mladen Turk] + + *) mod_ssl: Add SSLProxyCheckPeerExpire and SSLProxyCheckPeerCN directives + to enable stricter checking of remote server certificates. + [Ruediger Pluem] + + *) mod_substitute: Fix a memory leak. PR 44948 + [Dan Poirier <poirier pobox.com>] + + *) mod_proxy_ajp: Forward remote port information by default. + [Rainer Jung] + + *) mod_disk_cache/mod_mem_cache: Fix handling of CacheIgnoreHeaders + directive to correctly remove headers before storing them. + [Lars Eilebrecht] + + *) mod_deflate: revert changes in 2.2.8 that caused an invalid + etag to be emitted for on-the-fly gzip content-encoding. + PR 39727 will require larger fixes and this fix was far more + harmful than the original code. PR 45023. [Roy T. Fielding] + + *) mod_disk_cache: The module now turns off sendfile support if + 'EnableSendfile off' is defined globally. PR 41218. + [Lars Eilebrecht, Issac Goldstand] + + *) prefork: Fix child process hang during graceful restart/stop in + configurations with multiple listening sockets. PR 42829. [Joe Orton, + Jeff Trawick] + + *) mod_ssl: Add SSLRenegBufferSize directive to allow changing the + size of the buffer used for the request-body where necessary + during a per-dir renegotiation. PR 39243. [Joe Orton] + + *) mod_rewrite: Introduce DiscardPathInfo|DPI flag to stop the troublesome + way that per-directory rewrites append the previous notion of PATH_INFO + to each substitution before evaluating subsequent rules. + PR38642 [Eric Covener] + + *) mod_authnz_ldap: Reduce number of initialization debug messages and make + information more clear. PR 46342 [Dan Poirier] + + *) mod_cache: Introduce 'no-cache' per-request environment variable + to prevent the saving of an otherwise cacheable response. + [Eric Covener] + + *) core: Translate the status line to ASCII on EBCDIC platforms in + ap_send_interim_response() and for locally generated "100 Continue" + responses. [Eric Covener] + + *) CGI: return 504 (Gateway timeout) rather than 500 when a script + times out before returning status line/headers. + PR 42190 [Nick Kew] + + *) prefork: Log an error instead of segfaulting when child startup fails + due to pollset creation failures. PR 46467. [Jeff Trawick] + + *) mod_ext_filter: fix error handling when the filter prog fails to start, + and introduce an onfail configuration option to abort the request + or to remove the broken filter and continue. + PR 41120 [Nick Kew] + + *) mod_include: support generating non-ASCII characters as entities in SSI + PR 25202 [Nick Kew] + + *) core/utils: Enhance ap_escape_html API to support escaping non-ASCII chars + [Nick Kew] + + *) mod_rewrite: fix "B" flag breakage by reverting r589343 + PR 45529 [Bob Ionescu <bobsiegen googlemail.com>] + + *) mod_cgid: fix segfault problem on solaris. + PR 39332 [Masaoki Kobayashi <masaoki techfirm.co.jp>, Jeff Trawick] + + *) mod_ldap: Avoid a segfault when result->rc is checked in uldap_connection_init + when result is NULL. This could happen if LDAP initialization failed. + PR 45994. [Dan Poirier <poirier pobox.com>] + + *) Set Listen protocol to "https" if port is set to 443 and no proto is specified + (as documented but not implemented). PR 46066 [Dan Poirier <poirier pobox.com>] + + *) mod_cache: Correctly save Content-Encoding of cachable entity. PR 46401 + [Dan Poirier <poirier pobox.com>] + + *) Output -M and -S dumps (modules and vhosts) to stdout instead of stderr. + PR 42571 and PR 44266 (dup). [Dan Poirier <poirier pobox.com>] + + *) mod_cache: When an explicit Expires or Cache-Control header is set, cache + normally non-cacheable response statuses. PR 46346. + [Alex Polvi <alex polvi.net>] + Changes with Apache 2.2.11 *) core: When the ap_http_header_filter processes an error bucket, cleanup |