CVE-2011-0419

Published: 16 May 2011

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.

Status

Notes

TODO: also check apr-util

update for apr-util is not needed.

References

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-0419
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1134-1
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian