CVE-2007-1863
MEDIUMEPSS 96th pctlDescription
cache_util.c in the mod_cache module in Apache HTTP Server (httpd), when caching is enabled and a threaded Multi-Processing Module (MPM) is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (child processing handler crash) via a request with the (1) s-maxage, (2) max-age, (3) min-fresh, or (4) max-stale Cache-Control headers without a value.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 96% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=186219
- http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=244658
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01178795
- http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_20.html
- http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_22.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//May/msg00001.html
- http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2009/000062.html
- http://osvdb.org/37079
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0534.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0556.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25830
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25873
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25920
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26273
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26443
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26508
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26822
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26842
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26993
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27037
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27563
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27732
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28606
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30430
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-06.xml
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-353.htm
- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=535617
- http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PK49355
- http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PK52702
- http://www.fujitsu.com/global/support/software/security/products-f/interstage-200802e.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:140
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:141
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_61_apache2.html
- http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-September/msg00320.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0557.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505990/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24649
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018303
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0026/
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-499-1
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-150A.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2727
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3283
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3386
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0233
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1697
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1500
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/54a42d4b01968df1117cea77fc53d6beb931c0e05936ad02af93e9ac%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5df9bfb86a3b054bb985a45ff9250b0332c9ecc181eec232489e7f79%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r0276683d8e1e07153fc8642618830ac0ade85b9ae0dc7b07f63bb8fc%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
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