Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting apache/httpd package, versions [,2.4.16)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
8.22% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-APACHEHTTPD-3007398
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed20 Jul 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Jul 2015

CVE-2015-0253  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade apache/httpd to version 2.4.16 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The read_request_line function in server/protocol.c in the Apache HTTP Server 2.4.12 does not initialize the protocol structure member, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and process crash) by sending a request that lacks a method to an installation that enables the INCLUDES filter and has an ErrorDocument 400 directive specifying a local URI.

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