CVE-2011-0419

Description

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.

Weakness classification

• CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Primary references

• cret@cert.org — Third Party Advisory
• cret@cert.org — Patch, Third Party Advisory
• cret@cert.org — Third Party Advisory
• cret@cert.org — Vendor Advisory
• cret@cert.org — Broken Link
• cret@cert.org — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• cret@cert.org — Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• cret@cert.org — Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• cret@cert.org — Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• cret@cert.org — Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• cret@cert.org — Not Applicable, Vendor Advisory
• cret@cert.org — Not Applicable, Vendor Advisory