CVE-2011-0419

Publication date 16 May 2011

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

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.

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Status

No maintained releases are affected by this CVE.

Package Ubuntu Release Status
apache2 11.04 natty
Not affected
10.10 maverick
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid
Not affected
8.04 LTS hardy
Not affected
6.06 LTS dapper
Fixed 2.0.55-4ubuntu2.13
apr 11.04 natty
Fixed 1.4.2-7ubuntu2.1
10.10 maverick
Fixed 1.4.2-3ubuntu1.1
10.04 LTS lucid
Fixed 1.3.8-1ubuntu0.3
8.04 LTS hardy
Fixed 1.2.11-1ubuntu0.2
6.06 LTS dapper Not in release

Notes

jdstrand

TODO: also check apr-util

sbeattie

update for apr-util is not needed.

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package Patch details
apr

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

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