Title: Apache mod_cookies Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
The Apache Project is a collaborative software development effort aimed at creating a robust, commercial-grade, featureful, and freely-available source code implementation of an HTTP (Web) server. Certain versions of the Apache webserver shipped with a remotely exploitable buffer overflow attack. This overflow was present in the function make_cookie, in mod_cookies.c used a 100 byte buffer. Remote attackers, if they provided more than 100 bytes, could exploit this vulnerabiltity to gain access to the server running the Apache server.
Affected Products:
- Apache Software Foundation Apache 0.8.11
- Apache Software Foundation Apache 0.8.14
- Apache Software Foundation Apache 1.0.0
- Apache Software Foundation Apache 1.0.2
- Apache Software Foundation Apache 1.0.3
- Apache Software Foundation Apache 1.0.5
- Apache Software Foundation Apache 1.1.0
- Apache Software Foundation Apache 1.1.1
References:
- Apache Software Foundation: Apache Software Foundation Homepage
- Network Associates Inc.: NAI Security Advisories (Formerly Secure Networks Inc. Advisories)
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