High
Security advisory
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. Fixed in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.34 (Affected 2.4.33).
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-8011
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:48 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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. Fixed in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.34 (Affected 2.4.33).
osv:CVE-2018-8011
Complete source record
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