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Alpine Linux: CVE-2012-2687: Multiple vulnerabilities in Apache < 2.4.3 allow remote privilege escalation and XSS

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2012-2687: Multiple vulnerabilities in Apache < 2.4.3 allow remote privilege escalation and XSS

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
04/18/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/30/2017
Modified
09/22/2017

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the make_variant_list function in mod_negotiation.c in the mod_negotiation module in the Apache HTTP Server 2.4.x before 2.4.3, when the MultiViews option is enabled, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted filename that is not properly handled during construction of a variant list.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-apache2

References

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