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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.

Notes

AuthorNote
jdstrand
TODO: also check apr-util
sbeattie
update for apr-util is not needed.

Priority

Medium

Status

Package Release Status
apr
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream
Released (1.4.4-1)
dapper Does not exist

hardy
Released (1.2.11-1ubuntu0.2)
lucid
Released (1.3.8-1ubuntu0.3)
maverick
Released (1.4.2-3ubuntu1.1)
natty
Released (1.4.2-7ubuntu2.1)
Patches:
vendor: http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2237
vendor: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0507.html
apache2
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream Needs triage

dapper
Released (2.0.55-4ubuntu2.13)
hardy Not vulnerable
(uses system apr)
lucid Not vulnerable
(uses system apr)
maverick Not vulnerable
(uses system apr)
natty Not vulnerable
(uses system apr)