Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libapache2-mod-auth-mellon (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published15 Nov 2014
- disclosed15 Nov 2014
Introduced: 15 Nov 2014
CVE-2014-8566 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libapache2-mod-auth-mellon package and not the libapache2-mod-auth-mellon package as distributed by Ubuntu.
The mod_auth_mellon module before 0.8.1 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via unspecified vectors related to a "session overflow" involving "sessions overlapping in memory."
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-8566
- http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1803.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8566
- https://github.com/UNINETT/mod_auth_mellon/releases/tag/v0.8.1
- https://postlister.uninett.no/sympa/arc/modmellon/2014-11/msg00000.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1803.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62094
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62125