vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2006-20001: Out-of-bounds Write

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jan 17, 2023
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A carefully crafted If: request header can cause a memory read, or write of a single zero byte, in a pool (heap) memory location beyond the header value sent. This could cause the process to crash.

This issue affects Apache HTTP Server 2.4.54 and earlier.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-apache2
Title
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