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FreeBSD: VID-CCE76ECA-CA16-11EB-9B84-D4C9EF517024 (CVE-2021-31618): Apache httpd -- Multiple vulnerabilities

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FreeBSD: VID-CCE76ECA-CA16-11EB-9B84-D4C9EF517024 (CVE-2021-31618): Apache httpd -- Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/09/2021
Created
11/08/2022
Added
11/04/2022
Modified
11/04/2022

Description

Apache HTTP Server protocol handler for the HTTP/2 protocol checks received request headers against the size limitations as configured for the server and used for the HTTP/1 protocol as well. On violation of these restrictions and HTTP response is sent to the client with a status code indicating why the request was rejected. This rejection response was not fully initialised in the HTTP/2 protocol handler if the offending header was the very first one received or appeared in a a footer. This led to a NULL pointer dereference on initialised memory, crashing reliably the child process. Since such a triggering HTTP/2 request is easy to craft and submit, this can be exploited to DoS the server. This issue affected mod_http2 1.15.17 and Apache HTTP Server version 2.4.47 only. Apache HTTP Server 2.4.47 was never released.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-apache24

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