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Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package apache2  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-APACHE2-622228
  • published27 Jul 2017
  • disclosed27 Jul 2017
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Introduced: 27 Jul 2017

CVE-2016-2161  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream apache2 package and not the apache2 package as distributed by Ubuntu.

In Apache HTTP Server versions 2.4.0 to 2.4.23, malicious input to mod_auth_digest can cause the server to crash, and each instance continues to crash even for subsequently valid requests.

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