CVE-2017-15710

N/A
Published: March 26, 2018 at 03:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:08 AM UTC
8 products affected across 5 vendorsDebian LinuxUbuntu LinuxEnterprise Linux

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 17%

Description

In Apache httpd 2.0.23 to 2.0.65, 2.2.0 to 2.2.34, and 2.4.0 to 2.4.29, mod_authnz_ldap, if configured with AuthLDAPCharsetConfig, uses the Accept-Language header value to lookup the right charset encoding when verifying the user's credentials. If the header value is not present in the charset conversion table, a fallback mechanism is used to truncate it to a two characters value to allow a quick retry (for example, 'en-US' is truncated to 'en'). A header value of less than two characters forces an out of bound write of one NUL byte to a memory location that is not part of the string. In the worst case, quite unlikely, the process would crash which could be used as a Denial of Service attack. In the more likely case, this memory is already reserved for future use and the issue has no effect at all.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

References (27)

Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/03/24/8
VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103512
VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACKThird Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040569
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHATThird Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHATThird Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0366
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHATThird Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0367

CVSS

Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-787

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