Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 21:32:09 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: apache13-modssl Message-ID: <20040412203209.GA69747@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <407AF080.5070109@mac.com> References: <20040412095020.M76613@maa-net.net> <20040412102829.GB7692@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <407AF080.5070109@mac.com>
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--fUYQa+Pmc3FrFX/N Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 03:39:44PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Matthew Seaman wrote: > [ ... ] > >Your friend is being unnecessarily alarmist. apache2 is not > >significantly different to apache13 in security terms. >=20 > There have been 16 CVE entries list for Apache 2, and 8 for Apache 1.x: >=20 > http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=3Dapache+2 > http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=3Dapache+1 Errr -- did you look at the lists of entries those searches actually turn up? Quite a few of the entries for the 'apache+2' search are actually apache-1.3.x specific... In fact, by my reckoning most of the CVE entries which are generic apache problems (i.e. they aren't OS or distribution specific, or they don't depend on some 3rd party code, like PHP) -- most of those apply equally to both apache-1.3.x and apache-2.0.x. If you search for the currently released apache versions, there are 2 entries mentioning apache-1.3.29 (one of which is actually for versions *before* 1.3.29), and also 2 mentioning apache-2.0.49 (again one of which only applies to versions *before* 2.0.49) I don't think that simply counting CVE entries is going to tell you very much useful. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --fUYQa+Pmc3FrFX/N Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAevzJdtESqEQa7a0RAtsTAKCKGwWMn8YGMc64DzrxxOa7YRYoZwCfUBjr d0dlZigamMBSITB+6ILeNHE= =pNoE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --fUYQa+Pmc3FrFX/N--
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