USN-133-1: Apache utility vulnerability

Releases

• 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 versions:

Ubuntu 4.10

• apache-utils -

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

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