| Summary: | <www-servers/apache-{2.2.31, 2.4.20}: NULL pointer dereference in mod_cache if Content-Type has empty value (CVE-2014-3581) | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Security | Reporter: | Agostino Sarubbo <ago> |
| Component: | Vulnerabilities | Assignee: | Gentoo Security <security> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | minor | CC: | polynomial-c |
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149709 | ||
| Whiteboard: | B3 [glsa cve] | ||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
CVE-2014-3581 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-3581): The cache_merge_headers_out function in modules/cache/cache_util.c in the mod_cache module in the Apache HTTP Server before 2.4.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via an empty HTTP Content-Type header. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149709#c4 Per that, 2.2.x is not affected and neither the current 2.4 versions in the tree Added to existing GLSA. This issue was resolved and addressed in GLSA 201610-02 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-02 by GLSA coordinator Kristian Fiskerstrand (K_F). |
From ${URL} : It was reported [1] that if Content-Type header value is empty, httpd with mod_cache enabled will segfault. Upstream patch: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1624234 [1]: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56924 @maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.