National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-0419
Original release date:05/16/2011
Last revised:10/30/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=703390
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/Announcement2.2.html
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.apache.org/dist/apr/Announcement1.x.html
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1098799
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1098188
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/apr/apr/branches/1.4.x/strings/apr_fnmatch.c?r1=731029&r2=1098902
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MISC
Name: http://cxib.net/stuff/apache.fnmatch.phps
Type: Patch Information
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2011:0897
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2011:0896
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2011:0507
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2012-392727.html
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/gen/fnmatch.c#rev1.15
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2011:084
External Source: MLIST
Name: [dev] 20110511 Re: Apache Portable Runtime 1.4.4 [...] Released
External Source: MLIST
Name: [dev] 20110510 Re: Apache Portable Runtime 1.4.4 [...] Released
External Source: MLIST
Name: [dev] 20110510 Re: fnmatch rewrite in apr, apr 1.4.3
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-2237
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.apache.org/dist/apr/CHANGES-APR-1.4
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5002
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1025527
External Source: SREASON
Name: 8246
External Source: SREASONRES
Name: 20110512 Multiple Vendors libc/fnmatch(3) DoS (incl apache)
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 44574
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 44564
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 44490
Type: Advisory
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14804
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14638
External Source: HP
Name: HPSBOV02822
External Source: HP
Name: SSRT100966
External Source: HP
Name: HPSBMU02704
External Source: HP
Name: HPSBUX02707
External Source: HP
Name: SSRT100626
External Source: HP
Name: HPSBUX02702
External Source: HP
Name: SSRT100606
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SU-2011:1229
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2011-10-12-3
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_22.html
Type: Advisory
External Source: MISC
Name: http://cxib.net/stuff/apr_fnmatch.txts
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/gen/fnmatch.c#rev1.22
Technical Details
- Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)