NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting apache2 package, versions <2.4.38-3+deb10u5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.11% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-APACHE2-1300557
  • published7 Jun 2021
  • disclosed15 Jun 2021

Introduced: 7 Jun 2021

CVE-2021-31618  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 apache2 to version 2.4.38-3+deb10u5 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream apache2 package and not the apache2 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

Apache HTTP Server protocol handler for the HTTP/2 protocol checks received request headers against the size limitations as configured for the server and used for the HTTP/1 protocol as well. On violation of these restrictions and HTTP response is sent to the client with a status code indicating why the request was rejected. This rejection response was not fully initialised in the HTTP/2 protocol handler if the offending header was the very first one received or appeared in a a footer. This led to a NULL pointer dereference on initialised memory, crashing reliably the child process. Since such a triggering HTTP/2 request is easy to craft and submit, this can be exploited to DoS the server. This issue affected mod_http2 1.15.17 and Apache HTTP Server version 2.4.47 only. Apache HTTP Server 2.4.47 was never released.

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