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Apache HTTPD: CVE-2018-8011: NULL Pointer Dereference

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 18, 2018
Added
Jul 19, 2018
Modified
Apr 9, 2026

Description

By specially crafting HTTP requests, the mod_md challenge handler would dereference a NULL pointer and cause the child process to segfault. This could be used to DoS the server. Fixed in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.34 (Affected 2.4.33).

Solution

apache-httpd-upgrade-latest

References

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