CVE-2014-0117

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2014-07-17
Bugzilla:
1120599: CVE-2014-0117 httpd: mod_proxy denial of service
A denial of service flaw was found in the mod_proxy httpd module. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to a server configured as a reverse proxy using a threaded Multi-Processing Modules (MPM) that would cause the httpd child process to crash.

Find out more about CVE-2014-0117 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue did not affect the versions of httpd as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6, Red Hat JBoss Web Server, and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. These products include httpd 2.2, and only httpd versions 2.4.6 through 2.4.9 include the vulnerable code.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 5
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (httpd24-httpd) RHSA-2014:0922 2014-07-23
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (httpd) RHSA-2014:0921 2014-07-23
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (httpd24-httpd) RHSA-2014:0922 2014-07-23

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat JBoss EWS 2 httpd Not affected
Red Hat JBoss EWS 1 httpd Not affected
Red Hat JBoss EAP 6 httpd Not affected
Red Hat JBoss EAP 5 httpd Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 httpd Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 httpd Not affected
Red Hat Directory Server 8 httpd Not affected

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