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List:       oss-security
Subject:    [oss-security] CVE-2018-8011: Apache HTTP Server mod_md DoS
From:       Mark Cox <mjc () apache ! org>
Date:       2018-07-18 8:02:27
Message-ID: CANnUo4+QaK2c6e9QEWCUAfvWW5x=NpnsoJqWgt5c-Aihvgf4Rg () mail ! gmail ! com
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CVE-2018-8011: mod_md DoS via Coredumps on specially crafted requests

Severity: Moderate

Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation

Versions Affected:
httpd 2.4.33

Description:
By specially crafting HTTP requests, the mod_md challenge
handler would dereference a NULL pointer and cause the child
process to segfault. This could be used to DoS the server

Mitigation:
All httpd users should upgrade to 2.4.34 or later.

Credit:
The issue was discovered by Daniel Caminada

References:
https://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html#CVE-2018-8011


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