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Out-of-bounds Write Affecting apache2 package, versions <2.4.10-10+deb8u12

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.64% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-APACHE2-391311
  • published26 Mar 2018
  • disclosed26 Mar 2018
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Introduced: 26 Mar 2018

CVE-2017-15710  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 apache2 to version 2.4.10-10+deb8u12 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:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

In Apache httpd 2.0.23 to 2.0.65, 2.2.0 to 2.2.34, and 2.4.0 to 2.4.29, mod_authnz_ldap, if configured with AuthLDAPCharsetConfig, uses the Accept-Language header value to lookup the right charset encoding when verifying the user's credentials. If the header value is not present in the charset conversion table, a fallback mechanism is used to truncate it to a two characters value to allow a quick retry (for example, 'en-US' is truncated to 'en'). A header value of less than two characters forces an out of bound write of one NUL byte to a memory location that is not part of the string. In the worst case, quite unlikely, the process would crash which could be used as a Denial of Service attack. In the more likely case, this memory is already reserved for future use and the issue has no effect at all.

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