<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200604-08"> <title>libapreq2: Denial of Service vulnerability</title> <synopsis> A vulnerability has been reported in libapreq2 which could lead to a Denial of Service. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">libapreq2</product> <announced>2006-04-17</announced> <revised count="01">2006-04-17</revised> <bug>128610</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="www-apache/libapreq2" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">2.07</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">2.07</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> libapreq is a shared library with associated modules for manipulating client request data via the Apache API. </p> </background> <description> <p> A vulnerability has been reported in the apreq_parse_headers() and apreq_parse_urlencoded() functions of Apache2::Request. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> A remote attacker could possibly exploit the vulnerability to cause a Denial of Service by CPU consumption. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All libapreq2 users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apache/libapreq2-2.07"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0042">CVE-2006-0042</uri> <uri link="https://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/httpd/apreq/tags/v2_07/CHANGES?rev=376998&view=markup">libapreq2 Changes</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2006-04-09T19:33:11Z"> jaervosz </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2006-04-11T17:20:17Z"> koon </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2006-04-13T19:11:49Z"> vorlon078 </metadata> </glsa>