Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact announce-help@httpd.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list announce@httpd.apache.org Delivered-To: moderator for announce@httpd.apache.org Received: (qmail 4339 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2003 13:50:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO striker.xs4all.nl) (213.84.19.217) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 29 Oct 2003 13:50:04 -0000 Received: from cheetah (cheetah.striker.nl [192.168.0.10]) by striker.xs4all.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id AC26447000 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:50:04 +0100 (CET) From: "Apache HTTP Server Project" To: Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Apache 2.0.48 Released Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:50:04 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Apache 2.0.48 Released The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache HTTP Server Project are pleased to announce the eleventh public release of the Apache 2.0 HTTP Server. This Announcement notes the significant changes in 2.0.48 as compared to 2.0.47. This version of Apache is principally a bug fix release. A summary of the bug fixes is given at the end of this document. Of particular note is that 2.0.48 addresses two security vulnerabilities: mod_cgid mishandling of CGI redirect paths could result in CGI output going to the wrong client when a threaded MPM is used. [http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2003-0789] A buffer overflow could occur in mod_alias and mod_rewrite when a regular expression with more than 9 captures is configured. [http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2003-0542] This release is compatible with modules compiled for 2.0.42 and later versions. We consider this release to be the best version of Apache available and encourage users of all prior versions to upgrade. Apache 2.0.48 is available for download from http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi Please see the CHANGES_2.0 file, linked from the above page, for a full list of changes. Apache 2.0 offers numerous enhancements, improvements, and performance boosts over the 1.3 codebase. For an overview of new features introduced after 1.3 please see http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/new_features_2_0.html When upgrading or installing this version of Apache, please keep in mind the following: If you intend to use Apache with one of the threaded MPMs, you must ensure that the modules (and the libraries they depend on) that you will be using are thread-safe. Please contact the vendors of these modules to obtain this information. Apache 2.0.48 Major changes Security vulnerabilities closed since Apache 2.0.47 *) SECURITY [CAN-2003-0789]: mod_cgid: Resolve some mishandling of the AF_UNIX socket used to communicate with the cgid daemon and the CGI script. [Jeff Trawick] *) SECURITY [CAN-2003-0542]: Fix buffer overflows in mod_alias and mod_rewrite which occurred if one configured a regular expression with more than 9 captures. [Andr� Malo] Bugs fixed and features added since Apache 2.0.47 *) mod_include: fix segfault which occured if the filename was not set, for example, when processing some error conditions. PR 23836. [Brian Akins , Andr� Malo] *) fix the config parser to support .. containers (no arguments in the opening tag) supported by httpd 1.3. Without this change mod_perl 2.0's sections are broken. ["Philippe M. Chiasson" ] *) mod_cgid: fix a hash table corruption problem which could result in the wrong script being cleaned up at the end of a request. [Jeff Trawick] *) Update httpd-*.conf to be clearer in describing the connection between AddType and AddEncoding for defining the meaning of compressed file extensions. [Roy Fielding] *) mod_rewrite: Don't die silently when failing to open RewriteLogs. PR 23416. [Andr� Malo] *) mod_rewrite: Fix mod_rewrite's support of the [P] option to send rewritten request using "proxy:". The code was adding multiple "proxy:" fields in the rewritten URI. PR: 13946. [Eider Oliveira ] *) cache_util: Fix ap_check_cache_freshness to check max_age, smax_age, and expires as directed in RFC 2616. [Thomas Castelle tcastelle@generali.fr] *) Ensure that ssl-std.conf is generated at configure time, and switch to using the expanded config variables to work the same as httpd-std.conf PR: 19611 [Thom May] *) mod_ssl: Fix segfaults after renegotiation failure. PR 21370 [Hartmut Keil ] *) mod_autoindex: If a directory contains a file listed in the DirectoryIndex directive, the folder icon is no longer replaced by the icon of that file. PR 9587. [David Shane Holden ] *) Fixed mod_usertrack to not get false positive matches on the user-tracking cookie's name. PR 16661. [Manni Wood ] *) mod_cache: Fix the cache code so that responses can be cached if they have an Expires header but no Etag or Last-Modified headers. PR 23130. [bjorn@exoweb.net] *) mod_log_config: Fix %b log format to write really "-" when 0 bytes were sent (e.g. with 304 or 204 response codes). [Astrid Ke�ler] *) Modify ap_get_client_block() to note if it has seen EOS. [Justin Erenkrantz] *) Fix a bug, where mod_deflate sometimes unconditionally compressed the content if the Accept-Encoding header contained only other tokens than "gzip" (such as "deflate"). PR 21523. [Joe Orton, Andr� Malo] *) Avoid an infinite recursion, which occured if the name of an included config file or directory contained a wildcard character. PR 22194. [Andr� Malo] *) mod_ssl: Fix a problem setting variables that represent the client certificate chain. PR 21371 [Jeff Trawick] *) Unix: Handle permissions settings for flock-based mutexes in unixd_set_global|proc_mutex_perms(). Allow the functions to be called for any type of mutex. PR 20312 [Jeff Trawick] *) ab: Work over non-loopback on Unix again. PR 21495. [Jeff Trawick] *) Fix a misleading message from the some of the threaded MPMs when MaxClients has to be lowered due to the setting of ServerLimit. [Jeff Trawick] *) Lower the severity of the "listener thread didn't exit" message to debug, as it is of interest only to developers. PR 9011 [Jeff Trawick] *) MPMs: The bucket brigades subsystem now honors the MaxMemFree setting. [Cliff Woolley, Jean-Jacques Clar] *) Install config.nice into the build/ directory to make minor version upgrades easier. [Joshua Slive] *) Fix mod_deflate so that it does not call deflate() without checking first whether it has something to deflate. (Currently this causes deflate to generate a fatal error according to the zlib spec.) PR 22259. [Stas Bekman] *) mod_ssl: Fix FakeBasicAuth for subrequest. Log an error when an identity spoof is encountered. [Sander Striker] *) mod_rewrite: Ignore RewriteRules in .htaccess files if the directory containing the .htaccess file is requested without a trailing slash. PR 20195. [Andr� Malo] *) ab: Overlong credentials given via command line no longer clobber the buffer. [Andr� Malo] *) mod_deflate: Don't attempt to hold all of the response until we're done. [Justin Erenkrantz] *) Assure that we block properly when reading input bodies with SSL. PR 19242. [David Deaves , William Rowe] *) Update mime.types to include latest IANA and W3C types. [Roy Fielding] *) mod_ext_filter: Set additional environment variables for use by the external filter. PR 20944. [Andrew Ho, Jeff Trawick] *) Fix buildconf errors when libtool version changes. [Jeff Trawick] *) Remember an authenticated user during internal redirects if the redirection target is not access protected and pass it to scripts using the REDIRECT_REMOTE_USER environment variable. PR 10678, 11602. [Andr� Malo] *) mod_include: Fix a trio of bugs that would cause various unusual sequences of parsed bytes to omit portions of the output stream. PR 21095. [Ron Park , Andr� Malo, Cliff Woolley] *) Update the header token parsing code to allow LWS between the token word and the ':' seperator. [PR 16520] [Kris Verbeeck , Nicel KM ] *) Eliminate creation of a temporary table in ap_get_mime_headers_core() [Joe Schaefer ] *) Added FreeBSD directory layout. PR 21100. [Sander Holthaus , Andr� Malo] *) Fix NULL-pointer issue in ab when parsing an incomplete or non-HTTP response. PR 21085. [Glenn Nielsen , Andr� Malo] *) mod_rewrite: Perform child initialization on the rewrite log lock. This fixes a log corruption issue when flock-based serialization is used (e.g., FreeBSD). [Jeff Trawick] *) Don't respect the Server header field as set by modules and CGIs. As with 1.3, for proxy requests any such field is from the origin server; otherwise it will have our server info as controlled by the ServerTokens directive. [Jeff Trawick]