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ALPINE-CVE-2017-15710

ALPINE-CVE-2017-15710 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

In Apache httpd 2.0.23 to 2.0.65, 2.2.0 to 2.2.34, and 2.4.0 to 2.4.29, mod_authnz_ldap, if configured with AuthLDAPCharsetConfig, uses the Accept-Language header value to lookup the right charset encoding when verifying the user's credentials. If the header value is not present in the charset conversion table, a fallback mechanism is used to truncate it to a two characters value to allow a quick retry (for example, 'en-US' is truncated to 'en'). A header value of less than two characters forces an out of bound write of one NUL byte to a memory location that is not part of the string. In the worst case, quite unlikely, the process would crash which could be used as a Denial of Service attack. In the more likely case, this memory is already reserved for future use and the issue has no effect at all.

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.0
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Alpine:v3.5apache22.4.6-r2, 0, 2.4.9-r1
Alpine:v3.4apache22.2.16-r0, 0, 2.4.9-r1
Alpine:v3.7apache22.4.17-r2, 2.4.18-r1, 2.4.18-r2
Alpine:v3.12apache22.2.21-r3, 0, 2.2.16-r0
Alpine:v3.18apache22.2.21-r3, 0, 2.4.9-r1
Alpine:v3.24apache20
Alpine:v3.19apache22.2.16-r0, 2.2.16-r1, 2.2.16-r2
Alpine:v3.11apache22.4.18-r1, 0, 2.4.9-r1
Alpine:v3.23apache22.4.9-r0, 0, 2.4.9-r1
Alpine:v3.10apache22.2.16-r3, 2.2.17-r0, 2.2.17-r1
Alpine:v3.20apache20, 2.2.16-r0, 2.2.16-r2
Alpine:v3.6apache20, 0, 2.4.9-r1
Alpine:v3.14apache22.2.22-r0, 2.2.22-r1, 2.4.10-r0
Alpine:v3.22apache22.4.4-r1, 0, 2.2.16-r0
Alpine:v3.9apache22.4.29-r1, 2.4.10-r0, 2.4.12-r0
Alpine:v3.16apache22.4.9-r1, 2.2.22-r0, 0
Alpine:v3.17apache22.4.17-r0, 0, 2.4.9-r1
Alpine:v3.8apache22.2.16-r0, 2.2.16-r2, 2.2.17-r0
Alpine:v3.15apache20, 0, 2.2.16-r1
Alpine:v3.13apache22.2.16-r1, 0, 2.4.9-r1

…and 1 more

Timeline

  • Mar 26, 2018 CVE Published
  • Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch
  • Jun 15, 2026 CVE Updated
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