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CentOS Linux: CVE-2017-15710: Moderate: httpd security, bug fix, and enhancement update (CESA-2020:1121)

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CentOS Linux: CVE-2017-15710: Moderate: httpd security, bug fix, and enhancement update (CESA-2020:1121)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/26/2018
Created
04/02/2020
Added
04/01/2020
Modified
05/25/2023

Description

In Apache httpd 2.0.23 to 2.0.65, 2.2.0 to 2.2.34, and 2.4.0 to 2.4.29, mod_authnz_ldap, if configured with AuthLDAPCharsetConfig, uses the Accept-Language header value to lookup the right charset encoding when verifying the user's credentials. If the header value is not present in the charset conversion table, a fallback mechanism is used to truncate it to a two characters value to allow a quick retry (for example, 'en-US' is truncated to 'en'). A header value of less than two characters forces an out of bound write of one NUL byte to a memory location that is not part of the string. In the worst case, quite unlikely, the process would crash which could be used as a Denial of Service attack. In the more likely case, this memory is already reserved for future use and the issue has no effect at all.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-httpd
  • centos-upgrade-httpd-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-httpd-devel
  • centos-upgrade-httpd-manual
  • centos-upgrade-httpd-tools
  • centos-upgrade-mod_ldap
  • centos-upgrade-mod_proxy_html
  • centos-upgrade-mod_session
  • centos-upgrade-mod_ssl

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