DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15710
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
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Debian:13 | apache2 | 0, 0, 0 |
| Debian:12 | apache2 | 0, 0, 0 |
| Debian:11 | apache2 | 0, 0, 0 |
| Debian:14 | apache2 | 0, 0, 0 |
Timeline
- Mar 26, 2018 CVE Published
- Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated