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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-8011

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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CVE-2018-8011

core-osv · Original source

Published 18 Jul 2018, 14:29 UTC

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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        "https://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html#CVE-2018-8011",
        "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180926-0007/"
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