The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache HTTP Server Project are pleased to announce the release of version 2.2.8 of the Apache HTTP Server ("Apache"). This version of Apache is principally a bug and security fix release. The following potential security flaws are addressed:

• CVE-2007-6421 (cve.mitre.org)
  mod_proxy_balancer: Correctly escape the worker route and the worker redirect string in the HTML output of the balancer manager. Reported by SecurityReason.

  A flaw was found in the mod_proxy_balancer module. On sites where mod_proxy_balancer is enabled, a cross-site scripting attack against an authorized user is possible.

• CVE-2007-6422 (cve.mitre.org)
  Prevent crash in balancer manager if invalid balancer name is passed as parameter. Reported by SecurityReason.

  A flaw was found in the mod_proxy_balancer module. On sites where mod_proxy_balancer is enabled, an authorized user could send a carefully crafted request that would cause the Apache child process handling that request to crash. This could lead to a denial of service if using a threaded Multi-Processing Module.

• CVE-2007-6388 (cve.mitre.org)
  mod_status: Ensure refresh parameter is numeric to prevent a possible XSS attack caused by redirecting to other URLs. Reported by SecurityReason.

  A flaw was found in the mod_status module. On sites where mod_status is enabled and the status pages were publicly accessible, a cross-site scripting attack is possible. Note that the server-status page is not enabled by default and it is best practice to not make this publicly available.

• CVE-2007-5000 (cve.mitre.org)
  mod_imagemap: Fix a cross-site scripting issue. Reported by JPCERT.

  A flaw was found in the mod_imap module. On sites where mod_imap is enabled and an imagemap file is publicly available, a cross-site scripting attack is possible.

We consider this release to be the best version of Apache available, and encourage users of all prior versions to upgrade.

Apache HTTP Server 2.2.8 is available for download from:

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

Apache 2.2 offers numerous enhancements, improvements, and performance boosts over the 2.0 codebase. For an overview of new features introduced since 2.0 please see:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/new_features_2_2.html