Improper Input Validation Affecting apr package, versions [,1.4.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.65% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-APR-2384851
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 Feb 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Feb 2012

CVE-2012-0840  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade apr to version 1.4.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation tables/apr_hash.c in the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library through 1.4.5 computes hash values without restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted input to an application that maintains a hash table.

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