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CVE-2011-0419

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Date: May 16, 2011

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

3.7

Related Resources (62)

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0507.html

Url: http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_22.html

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r0276683d8e1e07153fc8642618830ac0ade85b9ae0dc7b07f63bb8fc%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9f93cf6dde308d42a9c807784e8102600d0397f5f834890708bf6920%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E

Url: http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00003.html

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9e8622254184645bc963a1d47c5d47f6d5a36d6f080d8d2c43b2b142%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=703390

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/44574

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f7f95ac1cd9895db2714fa3ebaa0b94d0c6df360f742a40951384a53%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E

Url: http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=131731002122529&w=2

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2237

Url: http://cxib.net/stuff/apache.fnmatch.phps

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5df9bfb86a3b054bb985a45ff9250b0332c9ecc181eec232489e7f79%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E

Url: http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=131551295528105&w=2

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/54a42d4b01968df1117cea77fc53d6beb931c0e05936ad02af93e9ac%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r688df6f16f141e966a0a47f817e559312b3da27886f59116a94b273d%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E

Url: http://cxib.net/stuff/apr_fnmatch.txts

Url: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1098188

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf6449464fd8b7437704c55f88361b66f12d5b5f90bcce66af4be4ba9%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E

Url: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40apr.apache.org/msg23976.html

Url: http://www.apache.org/dist/apr/Announcement1.x.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/44490

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rdca61ae990660bacb682295f2a09d34612b7bb5f457577fe17f4d064%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9ea3538f229874c80a10af473856a81fbf5f694cd7f471cc679ba70b%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2cb985de917e7da0848c440535f65a247754db8b2154a10089e4247b%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/44564

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14804

Url: http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8246

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8828e649175df56f1f9e3919938ac7826128525426e2748f0ab62feb%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r064df0985779b7ee044d3120d71ba59750427cf53f57ba3384e3773f%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E

Url: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujuly2013-1899826.html

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2011-0419

Url: http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134987041210674&w=2

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0419

Url: http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=132033751509019&w=2

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r57608dc51b79102f3952ae06f54d5277b649c86d6533dcd6a7d201f7%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rfbaf647d52c1cb843e726a0933f156366a806cead84fbd430951591b%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E

Url: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/apr/apr/branches/1.4.x/strings/apr_fnmatch.c?r1=731029&r2=1098902

Url: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40apr.apache.org/msg23960.html

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1d201e3da31a2c8aa870c8314623caef7debd74a13d0f25205e26f15%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E

Url: http://securitytracker.com/id?1025527

Url: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/gen/fnmatch.c#rev1.15

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0896.html

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14638

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00011.html

Url: http://www.apache.org/dist/apr/CHANGES-APR-1.4

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:150

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/re2e23465bbdb17ffe109d21b4f192e6b58221cd7aa8797d530b4cd75%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r75cbe9ea3e2114e4271bbeca7aff96117b50c1b6eb7c4772b0337c1f%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E

Url: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5002

Url: http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/98

Url: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/gen/fnmatch.c#rev1.22

Url: http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/Announcement2.2.html

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:084

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/48308

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0897.html

Url: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1098799

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8d63cb8e9100f28a99429b4328e4e7cebce861d5772ac9863ba2ae6f%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-0419

Url: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2012-392727.html

Url: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40apr.apache.org/msg23961.html

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2011-0419

Severity Score

3.7

Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

CWE-770

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version 1.4.3,2.2.18

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	3.7
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.3
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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