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ELSA-2011-0507 Moderate: Oracle Linux apr security update

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ELSA-2011-0507 Moderate: Oracle Linux apr security update

Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

05/16/2011

Created

07/25/2018

Added

12/20/2011

Modified

07/04/2017

Description

Stack consumption vulnerability in the fnmatch implementation in apr_fnmatch.c in the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library before 1.4.3 and the Apache HTTP Server before 2.2.18, and in fnmatch.c in libc in NetBSD 5.1, OpenBSD 4.8, FreeBSD, Apple Mac OS X 10.6, Oracle Solaris 10, and Android, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via *? sequences in the first argument, as demonstrated by attacks against mod_autoindex in httpd.

Solution(s)

oracle-linux-upgrade-apr
oracle-linux-upgrade-apr-devel
oracle-linux-upgrade-apr-docs

References

https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2011-0419
APPLE-SA-2011-10-12-3
CVE - 2011-0419
DSA-2237
OVAL14638
OVAL14804
RHSA-2011:0507
RHSA-2011:0896
RHSA-2011:0897
http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2011-May/002132.html
http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2011-May/002133.html
http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2011-May/002138.html

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