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.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: apache
Published:
Updated: 2024-09-17T03:37:24.707Z
Reserved: 2017-10-21T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-15710

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Status : Modified
Published: 2018-03-26T15:29:00.227
Modified: 2024-11-21T03:15:03.740
Link: CVE-2017-15710
