National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2004-0786
Original release date:10/20/2004
Last revised:09/10/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The IPv6 URI parsing routines in the apr-util library for Apache 2.0.50 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (child process crash) via a certain URI, as demonstrated using the Codenomicon HTTP Test Tool.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Apache (07/02/2008)
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Fixed in Apache HTTP Server 2.0.51:
http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_20.html
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2004:463
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: apache-ipv6-aprutil-dos(17382)
External Source: TRUSTIX
Name: 2004-0047
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2004:463
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2004:032
External Source: MANDRAKE
Name: MDKSA-2004:096
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200409-21
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 12540