CVE-2017-15710

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
Apache Software FoundationApache HTTP Server2.0.23 to 2.0.65affected
Apache Software FoundationApache HTTP Server2.2.0 to 2.2.34affected
Apache Software FoundationApache HTTP Server2.4.0 to 2.4.29affected

Weaknesses

  • Out of bound write in mod_authnz_ldap when using too small Accept-Language values.

ADP Enrichment

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