5
CVSSv2

CVE-2004-0942

Published: 09/02/2005 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 505
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Apache webserver 2.0.52 and previous versions allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an HTTP GET request with a MIME header containing multiple lines with a large number of space characters.

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Vendor Advisories

Synopsis httpd security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic Updated httpd packages that include fixes for two security issues, as well asother bugs, are now available Description The Apache HTTP server is a powerful, full-featured, efficient, andfreely-available Web ser ...
Chintan Trivedi discovered a Denial of Service vulnerability in apache2 The field length limit was not enforced for certain malicious requests This could allow a remote attacker who is able to send large amounts of data to a server to cause HTTP server instances to consume proportional amounts of memory, which can render the service unavailable ...

Exploits

#!/usr/bin/perl # Based on -> # apache-squ1rtc exploit # # Original credit goes to Chintan Trivedi on the # FullDisclosure mailing list: # seclistsorg/lists/fulldisclosure/2004/Nov/0022html # # More info -> # # wwwcvemitreorg/cgi-bin/cvenamecgi?name=CAN-200 ...

References

NVD-CWE-Otherhttp://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-November/028248.htmlhttp://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=HPSBUX01123http://www.trustix.org/errata/2004/0061/http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005//Aug/msg00001.htmlhttp://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102198-1http://secunia.com/advisories/19072http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-562.htmlhttp://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-081.htmhttp://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Aug/msg00000.htmlhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:135http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0789http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110384374213596&w=2https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17930https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10962https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/54a42d4b01968df1117cea77fc53d6beb931c0e05936ad02af93e9ac%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3Ehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5df9bfb86a3b054bb985a45ff9250b0332c9ecc181eec232489e7f79%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3Ehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r0276683d8e1e07153fc8642618830ac0ade85b9ae0dc7b07f63bb8fc%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3Ehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8828e649175df56f1f9e3919938ac7826128525426e2748f0ab62feb%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3Ehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf6449464fd8b7437704c55f88361b66f12d5b5f90bcce66af4be4ba9%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3Ehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/re895fc1736d25c8cf57e102c871613b8aeec9ea26fd8a44e7942b5ab%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3Ehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd65d8ba68ba17e7deedafbf5bb4899f2ae4dad781d21b931c2941ac3%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3Ehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2cb985de917e7da0848c440535f65a247754db8b2154a10089e4247b%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3Ehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9e8622254184645bc963a1d47c5d47f6d5a36d6f080d8d2c43b2b142%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3Ehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r734a07156abf332d5ab27fb91d9d962cacfef4f3681e44056f064fa8%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3Ehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9f93cf6dde308d42a9c807784e8102600d0397f5f834890708bf6920%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3Ehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5001ecf3d6b2bdd0b732e527654248abb264f08390045d30709a92f6%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3Ehttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004:562https://usn.ubuntu.com/23-1/https://nvd.nist.govhttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/855/