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IBM HTTP Server: CVE-2018-8011: mod_md, DoS via Coredumps on specially crafted requests

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IBM HTTP Server: CVE-2018-8011: mod_md, DoS via Coredumps on specially crafted requests

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/18/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
09/28/2018
Modified
09/28/2018

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(s)

  • ibm-http_server-apply-fix-pack-9_0_0_9

References

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