CVE-2016-6312

MEDIUM

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.11 - Authenticated Denial of Service via mod_dontdothat Entity Expansion

Title source: llm

Description

The mod_dontdothat component of the mod_dav_svn Apache module in Subversion as packaged in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.11 does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote authenticated users with access to the webdav repository to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and httpd crash). NOTE: Exists as a regression to CVE-2009-1955.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1364122

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92320

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0220

EPSS Percentile 80.3%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-400

Status published

Products (1)

redhat/enterprise_linux 5.11

Published Jul 17, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026