Bug 339527 – <dev-libs/apr-util-1.3.10: Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2010-1623)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Security

[Description Tim Sammut (RETIRED) 2010-10-02 23:04:11 UTC]

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SECURITY: CVE-2010-1623
Fix a denial of service attack against apr_brigade_split_line().

The upstream appears to have tagged 1.3.10 for release.

[Comment 1 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2010-10-04 01:06:01 UTC]

Stabilize dev-libs/apr-util-1.3.10.

[Comment 2 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2010-10-04 12:15:21 UTC]

amd64 done

[Comment 3 Markus Meier 2010-10-05 20:26:03 UTC]

x86 stable

[Comment 4 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2010-10-06 15:09:54 UTC]

Stable for HPPA.

[Comment 5 Brent Baude (RETIRED) 2010-10-08 15:05:03 UTC]

ppc64 done

[Comment 6 Brent Baude (RETIRED) 2010-10-08 15:08:15 UTC]

ppc done

[Comment 7 Tobias Klausmann (RETIRED) 2010-10-09 13:12:18 UTC]

Stable on alpha.

[Comment 8 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2010-10-09 16:40:57 UTC]

arm/ia64/s390/sh/sparc stable

[Comment 9 Tim Sammut (RETIRED) 2010-10-09 19:05:25 UTC]

GLSA Vote: Yes, remote unauthenticated DoS in a common package.

[Comment 10 Stefan Behte (RETIRED) 2010-10-22 23:16:16 UTC]

CVE-2010-1623 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-1623):
  The apr_brigade_split_line function in buckets/apr_brigade.c in the
  Apache Portable Runtime Utility library (aka APR-util) before 1.3.10,
  as used in the mod_reqtimeout module in the Apache HTTP Server and
  other software, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
  (memory consumption) via unspecified vectors.

[Comment 11 Stefan Behte (RETIRED) 2010-11-21 16:57:15 UTC]

Vote: YES, glsa request filed.

[Comment 12 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot 2014-05-18 17:54:11 UTC]

This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201405-24 at http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201405-24.xml
by GLSA coordinator Sean Amoss (ackle).