Apache HTTPD: mod_md, DoS via Coredumps on specially crafted requests (CVE-2018-8011)
5
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
07/18/2018
07/25/2018
07/19/2018
01/13/2022
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.
Solution(s)
- apache-httpd-upgrade-2_4_34
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