CVE-2015-3200

mod_auth in lighttpd before 1.4.36 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary log entries via a basic HTTP authentication string without a colon character, as demonstrated by a string containing a NULL and new line character.

Updated lighttpd packages fix security vulnerability:

mod_auth in lighttpd before 1.4.36 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary log entries via a basic HTTP authentication string without a colon character, as demonstrated by a string containing a NULL and new line character (CVE-2015-3200).

The lighttpd package has been updated to version 1.4.37, fixing this issue and several other bugs.

In the Mageia 4 package, improvements have been made to the logrotate configuration and systemd service, allowing graceful reloading of configuration files and proper re-opening of log files (mga#15948, mga#15980).

This update for lighttpd fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

• CVE-2016-1000212: don't allow requests to set the HTTP_PROXY variable. As *CGI apps might pick it up and use it for outgoing requests (bsc#990847).
• CVE-2015-3200: log injection via malformed base64 string in Authentication header (bsc#932286).

Bugfixes:

• added su directive to logrotate file as the directory is owned by lighttpd. (bsc#981347)
• fix out of bounds read in mod_scgi (debian#857255)

This update for lighttpd fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

• CVE-2016-1000212: Don't allow requests to set the HTTP_PROXY variable. As *CGI apps might pick it up and use it for outgoing requests. (bsc#990847)
• CVE-2015-3200: Log injection via malformed base64 string in Authentication header. (bsc#932286)

Bug fixes:

• Add su directive to logrotate file as the directory is owned by lighttpd. (bsc#981347)
• Fix out of bounds read in mod_scgi.

It was discovered that Lighttpd did not properly sanitized the string used in basic HTTP authentication method. A remote attacker could use this to inject arbitrary log entries and maybe obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2015-3200)

It was discovered that Lighttpd did not properly sanitized the string used in alias. A remote attacker could use this to access the content of the directory above the alias and obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2018-19052)