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CVE-2014-0118

Public on 2014-07-20
Modified on 2014-09-19
Description

A denial of service flaw was found in the way httpd's mod_deflate module handled request body decompression (configured via the "DEFLATE" input filter). A remote attacker able to send a request whose body would be decompressed could use this flaw to consume an excessive amount of system memory and CPU on the target system.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 httpd 2014-07-31 13:54 ALAS-2014-388
Amazon Linux 1 httpd24 2014-07-31 13:56 ALAS-2014-389

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P