libapreq2: Denial of Service vulnerability

libapreq2: Denial of Service vulnerability A vulnerability has been reported in libapreq2 which could lead to a Denial of Service. libapreq2 April 17, 2006 April 17, 2006: 01 128610 remote 2.07 2.07

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.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All libapreq2 users should upgrade to the latest version:


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

CVE-2006-0042 libapreq2 Changes jaervosz koon vorlon078