CVE-2016-2146

HIGH

Fedora < 0.11.0 - Memory Corruption

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

The am_read_post_data function in mod_auth_mellon before 0.11.1 does not limit the amount of data read, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (worker process crash, web server deadlock, or memory consumption) via a large amount of POST data.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/179085.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0340
EPSS Percentile 87.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (2)
fedoraproject/fedora 23
uninett/mod_auth_mellon < 0.11.0
Published Apr 15, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026