National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-1902

Overview

The multipart processor in ModSecurity before 2.5.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a multipart form datapost request with a missing part header name, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2009-2686

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00529.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2009-2654

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00487.html

External Source: XF

Name: modsecurity-multipart-dos(49212)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/49212

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-0703

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0703

External Source: BID

Name: 34096

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34096

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20090319 [ISecAuditors Security Advisories] ModSecurity < 2.5.9 remote Denial of Service

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501968

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 52553

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/52553

External Source: MILW0RM

Name: 8241

Hyperlink:http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/8241

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=667542&group_id=68846

Hyperlink:http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=667542&group_id=68846

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200907-02

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-02.xml

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 35687

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/35687

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 34311

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/34311

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 34256

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/34256

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2009:011

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00003.html