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Tracker / CVE-2013-6438

CVE-2013-6438

Medium 5.0

The dav_xml_get_cdata function in main/util.c in the mod_dav module in the Apache HTTP Server before 2.4.8 does not properly remove whitespace characters from CDATA sections, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted DAV WRITE request.

Affected products and versions

apache http_server · 2.2.0 → 2.2.27
apache http_server · 2.4.1 → 2.4.9
canonical ubuntu_linux
oracle http_server

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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