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USN-133-1: Apache utility vulnerability

26 May 2005

Apache utility vulnerability

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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.

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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.