CVE-2017-15710

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Mar 26, 2018
Updated
Sep 17, 2024
Reserved
Oct 21, 2017

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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.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Apache HTTP ServerApache Software Foundation
  • 2.0.23 to 2.0.65Affected
  • 2.2.0 to 2.2.34Affected
  • 2.4.0 to 2.4.29Affected

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