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Is CVE-2016-8743 fixed in Apache 2.4.18

Asked by Brent Shinn on 2017-04-07

My vulnerability scans come up with:

Apache HTTPD: Apache HTTP Request Parsing Whitespace Defects (CVE-2016-8743)

Then it recommends that we upgrade to Apache 2.4.25 where this problem is corrected. One of the developers here said that Canonical has probably aleady fixed this in 2.4.18, but I can find any information to corroborate that.

Is (CVE-2016-8743) fixed in 2.4.18, or should I just upgrade Apache to 2.4.25?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apache2/+changelog

Doesn't seem so. I suggest you report a bug

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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#2

the fix is apparently still missing, see
see https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2016/CVE-2016-8743.html
and https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/pkg/apache2.html

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Brent Shinn (brents-z) said : 		#3

Thanks for finding those for me.