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[Announcement] Apache HTTP Server 2.2.25 Released
Apache HTTP Server 2.2.25 Released

The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache HTTP Server Project are
pleased to announce the release of version 2.2.25 of the Apache HTTP
Server ("Apache"). This version of Apache is principally a security
and bug fix legacy release, including the following security fixes:

* SECURITY: CVE-2013-1896 (cve.mitre.org)
mod_dav: Sending a MERGE request against a URI handled by
mod_dav_svn with the source href (sent as part of the request body
as XML) pointing to a URI that is not configured for DAV will
trigger a segfault.

* SECURITY: CVE-2013-1862 (cve.mitre.org)
mod_rewrite: Ensure that client data written to the RewriteLog is
escaped to prevent terminal escape sequences from entering the
log file.

The Apache HTTP Project thanks Ben Riser and Ramiro Molina for
bringing these issues to the attention of the project security team.

Errata: the build is known to fail against OpenSSL when that library
is built to provide no SSLv2 support whatsoever. The following patch
will successfully build httpd 2.2.25 against such OpenSSL
installations:

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1501712

We consider the Apache HTTP Server 2.4 release to be the best version
of Apache available, and encourage users of 2.2 and all prior
versions to upgrade. This 2.2 legacy release is offered for those
unable to upgrade at this time. For further details, see:

http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/Announcement2.4.txt

Apache HTTP Server 2.4 and 2.2.25 are available for download from:

http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi

Please see the CHANGES_2.2 file, linked from the download page, for a
full list of changes. A condensed list, CHANGES_2.2.25 includes only
those changes introduced since the prior 2.2 release. A summary of
all of the security vulnerabilities addressed in this and earlier
releases is available:

http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_22.html

This release includes the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) version 1.4.8
and APR Utility Library (APR-util) version 1.5.2, bundled with the
tar and zip distributions. The APR libraries libapr and libaprutil
(and on Win32, libapriconv version 1.2.1) must all be updated to
ensure binary compatibility and address many known security and
platform bugs. APR-util version 1.5 represents a minor version
upgrade from earlier httpd 2.2 source distributions.

This release builds on and extends the Apache 2.0 API and is
superceeded by the Apache 2.4 API. Modules written for Apache 2.0
or 2.4 will need to be recompiled in order to run with Apache 2.2,
and most will require minimal or no source code changes.

When upgrading or installing this version of Apache, please bear in
mind that if you intend to use Apache with one of the threaded MPMs
(other than the Prefork MPM), you must ensure that any modules you
will be using (and the libraries they depend on) are thread-safe.