SB2017062223 - Amazon Linux AMI update for httpd
Published: June 22, 2017
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017062223
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Data manipulation
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Spoofing attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-8743)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of HTTP request, which contain whitespace characters. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request, containing CR, FF, VTAB characters followed by CRLF sequence and inject arbitrary data in server response.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in content spoofing, web cache poisoning and XSS attacks.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.