libapreq2: Denial of Service vulnerability

1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Package	Vulnerable versions	Unaffected versions	Architecture(s)
www-apache/libapreq2	< 2.07	>= 2.07	All supported architectures

Related bugreports: #128610

A vulnerability has been reported in libapreq2 which could lead to a Denial of Service.

2. Impact Information

libapreq is a shared library with associated modules for manipulating client request data via the Apache API.

A vulnerability has been reported in the apreq_parse_headers() and apreq_parse_urlencoded() functions of Apache2::Request.

A remote attacker could possibly exploit the vulnerability to cause a Denial of Service by CPU consumption.

3. Resolution Information

There is no known workaround at this time.

All libapreq2 users should upgrade to the latest version:

Code Listing 3.1: Resolution

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apache/libapreq2-2.07"

4. References

Page updated April 17, 2006

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