CVE-2011-0419
apr - denial of service
EPSS 52.9%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2011-0419
To remediate CVE-2011-0419, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 1.4.4-1 or later
- —upgrade to 1.2.12-5+lenny4 or later
Is CVE-2011-0419 being exploited?
Likely — EPSS is 52.9%, placing CVE-2011-0419 in the top tier of vulnerabilities by exploitation probability. Prioritise patching.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 1.4.4-1
- from 0, < 1.2.12-5+lenny4