CVE-2015-3183
mediumpriority · attend · 46EPSS 0.745 · 99 %ileEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-26
The chunked transfer coding implementation in the Apache HTTP Server before 2.4.14 does not properly parse chunk headers, which allows remote attackers to conduct HTTP request smuggling attacks via a crafted request, related to mishandling of large chunk-size values and invalid chunk-extension characters in modules/http/http_filters.c.
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affected products (4)
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references (158)
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- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10735cnnvd
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Aug/msg00001.htmlcnnvd
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00004.htmlcnnvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00011.htmlcnnvd
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=144493176821532&w=2cnnvd
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1666.htmlcnnvd
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1667.htmlcnnvd
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1668.htmlcnnvd
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