Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libmicrohttpd package, versions <0.9.72-2+deb11u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (22nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-LIBMICROHTTPD-3335937
  • published1 Mar 2023
  • disclosed28 Feb 2023

Introduced: 28 Feb 2023

CVE-2023-27371  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 libmicrohttpd to version 0.9.72-2+deb11u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libmicrohttpd package and not the libmicrohttpd package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

GNU libmicrohttpd before 0.9.76 allows remote DoS (Denial of Service) due to improper parsing of a multipart/form-data boundary in the postprocessor.c MHD_create_post_processor() method. This allows an attacker to remotely send a malicious HTTP POST packet that includes one or more '\0' bytes in a multipart/form-data boundary field, which - assuming a specific heap layout - will result in an out-of-bounds read and a crash in the find_boundary() function.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1