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*) SECURITY: CVE-2012-0883 (cve.mitre.org)
envvars: Fix insecure handling of LD_LIBRARY_PATH that could lead to the
current working directory to be searched for DSOs. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) core: In AllowOverrideList, do not allow 'None' together with other
directives. PR 52823. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_slotmem_shm: Support DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR for file-based shm.
[Jim Jagielski]
*) core: Fix merging of AllowOverrideList and ContentDigest.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_request: Fix validation of the KeptBodySize argument so it
doesn't always throw a configuration error. PR 52981 [Eric Covener]
*) core: Add filesystem paths to access denied / access failed messages
AH00035 and AH00036. [Eric Covener]
*) mod_dumpio: Properly handle errors from subsequent input filters.
PR 52914. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) Unix MPMs: Fix small memory leak in parent process if connect()
failed when waking up children. [Joe Orton]
*) "DirectoryIndex disabled" now undoes DirectoryIndex settings in
the current configuration section, not just previous config sections.
*) mod_xml2enc: Fix broken handling of EOS buckets which could lead to
response headers not being sent. PR 52766. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_ssl: Properly free the GENERAL_NAMEs. PR 32652. [Kaspar Brand]
*) core: Check during config test that directories for the access
*) mod_xml2enc, mod_proxy_html: Enable per-module loglevels.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_filter: Fix segfault with AddOutputFilterByType. PR 52755.
[Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_session: Sessions are encoded as application/x-www-form-urlencoded
strings, however we do not handle the encoding of spaces properly.
Fixed. [Graham Leggett]
*) Configuration: Example in comment should use a path consistent
with the default configuration. PR 52715.
[Rich Bowen, Jens Schleusener, Rainer Jung]
*) Configuration: Switch documentation links from trunk to 2.4.
[Rainer Jung]
*) configure: Fix out of tree build using apr and apr-util in srclib.
[Rainer Jung]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2012-0053 (cve.mitre.org)
Fix an issue in error responses that could expose "httpOnly" cookies
when no custom ErrorDocument is specified for status code 400.
[Eric Covener]
*) mod_proxy_balancer: Fix crash on Windows. PR 52402 [Mladen Turk]
*) core: Check during configtest that the directories for error logs exist.
PR 29941 [Stefan Fritsch]
*) Core configuration: add AllowOverride option to treat syntax
errors in .htaccess as non-fatal. PR 52439 [Nick Kew, Jim Jagielski]
*) core: Fix memory consumption in core output filter with streaming
bucket types like CGI or PIPE. [Joe Orton, Stefan Fritsch]
*) configure: Disable modules at configure time if a prerequisite module
is not enabled. PR 52487. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) Rewrite and proxy now decline what they don't support rather
than fail the request. [Joe Orton]
*) Fix building against external apr plus ap-util if apr is not installed
in a system default path. [Rainer Jung]
*) Doxygen fixes and improvements. [Joe Orton, Igor Galić]
*) core: Fix building against PCRE 8.30 by switching from the obsolete
pcre_info() to pcre_fullinfo(). PR 52623 [Ruediger Pluem, Rainer Jung]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2012-0031 (cve.mitre.org)
Fix scoreboard issue which could allow an unprivileged child process
could cause the parent to crash at shutdown rather than terminate
cleanly. [Joe Orton]
*) mod_ssl: Fix compilation with xlc on AIX. PR 52394. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2012-0021 (cve.mitre.org)
mod_log_config: Fix segfault (crash) when the '%{cookiename}C' log format
string is in use and a client sends a nameless, valueless cookie, causing
a denial of service. The issue existed since version 2.2.17 and 2.3.3.
PR 52256. [Rainer Canavan <rainer-apache 7val com>]
*) mod_ssl: when compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.1 or later, allow explicit
control of TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 through the SSLProtocol directive.
[Kaspar Brand]
*) mod_ssl: set OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN when compiling against OpenSSL 1.0.1
or later, to improve binary compatibility with future OpenSSL releases.
[Kaspar Brand]
*) mod_mime: Don't arbitrarily bypass AddOutputFilter during a ProxyPass,
but then allow AddOutputFilter during a RewriteRule [P]. Make mod_mime
behave identically in both cases. PR52342. [Graham Leggett]
*) Move ab, logresolve, httxt2dbm and apxs to bin from sbin, along with
corresponding man pages. [Graham Leggett]
*) Distinguish properly between the bindir and sbindir directories when
installing binaries. Previously all binaries were silently installed to
sbindir, whether they were system administration commands or not.
[Graham Leggett]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2011-4317 (cve.mitre.org)
Resolve additional cases of URL rewriting with ProxyPassMatch or
RewriteRule, where particular request-URIs could result in undesired
backend network exposure in some configurations.
[Joe Orton]
*) core: Limit line length in .htaccess to 8K like in 2.2.x, to avoid
additional DoS potential. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) core, all modules: Add unique tag to most error log messages. [Stefan
Fritsch]
*) mod_socache_memcache: Change provider name from "mc" to "memcache" to
match module name. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_slotmem_shm: Change provider name from "shared" to "shm" to match
module name. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_ldap: Fix segfault with Solaris LDAP when enabling ldaps. This
requires an apr-util fix in which is available in apr-util >= 1.4.0.
PR 42682. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_rewrite: Add the AllowNoSlash RewriteOption, which makes it possible
for RewriteRules to be placed in .htaccess files that match the directory
with no trailing slash. PR 48304.
[Matthew Byng-Maddick <matthew byng-maddick bbc.co.uk>]
*) mod_session_crypto: Add a SessionCryptoPassphraseFile directive so that
the administrator can hide the keys from the configuration. [Graham
Leggett]
*) Introduce a per request version of the remote IP address, which can be
optionally modified by a module when the effective IP of the client
is not the same as the real IP of the client (such as a load balancer).
Introduce a per connection "peer_ip" and a per request "client_ip" to
distinguish between the raw IP address of the connection and the effective
IP address of the request. [Graham Leggett]
*) ap_pass_brigade_fchk() function added. [Jim Jagielski]
*) core: Pass ap_errorlog_info struct to error log hook. [Stefan Fritsch]
*) mod_cache_disk: Make sure we check return codes on all writes and
attempts to close, and clean up after ourselves in these cases.
PR43589. [Graham Leggett]
*) mod_cache_disk: Remove the unnecessary intermediate brigade while
writing to disk. Fixes a problem where mod_disk_cache was leaving
buckets in the intermediate brigade and not passing them to out on
exit. [Florian S. <f_los_ch yahoo.com>, Graham Leggett]
*) mod_ssl: use a shorter setting for SSLCipherSuite in the default
default configuration file, and add some more information about
configuring a speed-optimized alternative.
[Kaspar Brand]
*) mod_ssl: drop support for the SSLv2 protocol. [Kaspar Brand]
*) mod_lua: Stop losing track of all but the most specific LuaHook* directives
when multiple per-directory config sections are used. Adds LuaInherit
directive to control how parent sections are merged. [Eric Covener]
*) Server directive display (-L): Include directives of DSOs.
[Jeff Trawick]
*) mod_cache: Make sure we merge headers correctly when we handle a
non cacheable conditional response. PR52120. [Graham Leggett]
- mod_noloris was superseded by mod_reqtimeout
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