The Apache HTTP Server Project is proud to announce the release of version 2.0.50 of the Apache HTTP Server ("Apache"). (translations are available fo German and Japanese language) .
This version of Apache is principally a bug fix release. Of particular note is that 2.0.50 addresses two security vulnerabilities:
A remotely triggered memory leak in http header parsing can allow a denial of service attack due to excessive memory consumption.
[CAN-2004-0493]
Fixes a mod_ssl buffer overflow in the
FakeBasicAuth code for a (trusted) client
certificate subject DN which exceeds 6K in length.
[CAN-2004-0488]
For further details, see the announcement
