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CVE-2011-0419

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2011-11-13 Apache APR -- DoS vulnerabilities
2011-05-23 Apache APR -- DoS vulnerabilities
2011-05-12 Apache APR -- DoS vulnerabilities

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2011-0419
Phase Assigned(20110111)

Description

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.

References

Source Reference
SREASONRES 20110512 Multiple Vendors libc/fnmatch(3) DoS (incl apache)
MLIST [dev] 20110510 Re: Apache Portable Runtime 1.4.4 [...] Released
MLIST [dev] 20110510 Re: fnmatch rewrite in apr, apr 1.4.3
MLIST [dev] 20110511 Re: Apache Portable Runtime 1.4.4 [...] Released
MISC http://cxib.net/stuff/apache.fnmatch.phps
MISC http://cxib.net/stuff/apr_fnmatch.txts
CONFIRM http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/gen/fnmatch.c#rev1.22
CONFIRM http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_22.html
CONFIRM http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/apr/apr/branches/1.4.x/strings/apr_fnmatch.c?r1=731029&r2=1098902
CONFIRM http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1098188
CONFIRM http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1098799
CONFIRM http://www.apache.org/dist/apr/Announcement1.x.html
CONFIRM http://www.apache.org/dist/apr/CHANGES-APR-1.4
CONFIRM http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/Announcement2.2.html
CONFIRM http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/gen/fnmatch.c#rev1.15
CONFIRM https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=703390
CONFIRM http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5002
CONFIRM http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2012-392727.html
CONFIRM http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujuly2013-1899826.html
APPLE APPLE-SA-2011-10-12-3
DEBIAN DSA-2237
HP HPSBUX02702
HP HPSBUX02707
HP SSRT100606
HP SSRT100626
HP HPSBMU02704
HP HPSBOV02822
HP SSRT100966
MANDRIVA MDVSA-2011:084
MANDRIVA MDVSA-2013:150
REDHAT RHSA-2011:0507
REDHAT RHSA-2011:0896
REDHAT RHSA-2011:0897
SUSE SUSE-SU-2011:1229
OVAL oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14638
OVAL oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14804
SECTRACK 1025527
SECUNIA 44490
SECUNIA 44564
SECUNIA 44574
SREASON 8246