Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting apr-docs package, versions <0:1.2.7-11.el5_6.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
96.67% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE5-APRDOCS-2457780
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed16 May 2011

Introduced: 16 May 2011

CVE-2011-0419  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:5 apr-docs to version 0:1.2.7-11.el5_6.4 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2011-0507.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream apr-docs package and not the apr-docs package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:5 relevant fixed versions and status.

Stack consumption vulnerability in the fnmatch implementation in apr_fnmatch.c in the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library before 1.4.3 and the Apache HTTP Server before 2.2.18, and in fnmatch.c in libc in NetBSD 5.1, OpenBSD 4.8, FreeBSD, Apple Mac OS X 10.6, Oracle Solaris 10, and Android, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via *? sequences in the first argument, as demonstrated by attacks against mod_autoindex in httpd.

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