vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2021-44790: Apache HTTPD: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 20, 2021
Added
Aug 16, 2022
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

A carefully crafted request body can cause a buffer overflow in the mod_lua multipart parser (r:parsebody() called from Lua scripts). The Apache httpd team is not aware of an exploit for the vulnerabilty though it might be possible to craft one. This issue affects Apache HTTP Server 2.4.51 and earlier.

Solutions

gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-admin-apache-toolsgentoo-linux-upgrade-www-servers-apache
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