CVE-2011-0419
mediumpriority · track · 38EPSS 0.304 · 98 %ileexploit · functionalEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
Stack consumption vulnerability in the fnmatch implementation in apr_fnmatch.c in the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library before 1.4.3 and the Apache HTTP Server before 2.2.18, and in fnmatch.c in libc in NetBSD 5.1, OpenBSD 4.8, FreeBSD, Apple Mac OS X 10.6, Oracle Solaris 10, and Android, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via *? sequences in the first argument, as demonstrated by attacks against mod_autoindex in httpd.
cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 3.9–4.3
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exploits (1)
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- EDB-35738Apache 1.4/2.2.x - APR 'apr_fnmatch()' Denial of Servicefunctional · exploit_db
affected products (14)
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also known as (3)
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sources
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references (173)
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- http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/gen/fnmatch.c#rev1.22cnnvd
- http://cxib.net/stuff/apache.fnmatch.phpscnnvd
- http://cxib.net/stuff/apr_fnmatch.txtscnnvd
- http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi#apache22Patchcnnvd
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00003.htmlcnnvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00011.htmlcnnvd
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=131551295528105&w=2cnnvd
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=131731002122529&w=2cnnvd
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