Fixed
Created: Apr 2, 2018
Updated: Dec 3, 2018
Resolved Date: May 9, 2018
Found In Version: 8.0.0.25
Fix Version: 8.0.0.26
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 8
Component/s: Userspace
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.
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15710
