Stack Consumption Vulnerability in APR and libc's fnmatch Implementation

Stack Consumption Vulnerability in APR and libc's fnmatch Implementation

CVE-2011-0419 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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