CVE-2021-31618 (GCVE-0-2021-31618)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-06-15 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 23:03
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Summary
Apache HTTP Server protocol handler for the HTTP/2 protocol checks received request headers against the size limitations as configured for the server and used for the HTTP/1 protocol as well. On violation of these restrictions and HTTP response is sent to the client with a status code indicating why the request was rejected. This rejection response was not fully initialised in the HTTP/2 protocol handler if the offending header was the very first one received or appeared in a a footer. This led to a NULL pointer dereference on initialised memory, crashing reliably the child process. Since such a triggering HTTP/2 request is easy to craft and submit, this can be exploited to DoS the server. This issue affected mod_http2 1.15.17 and Apache HTTP Server version 2.4.47 only. Apache HTTP Server 2.4.47 was never released.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache Software Foundation | Apache HTTP Server |
Version: 2.4.47 |
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