CVE-2015-5159

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2015-07-21
CWE:
CWE-400
Bugzilla:
1245200: CVE-2015-5159 python-kdcproxy: Missing request size limit allows denial of service

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CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

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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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 python-kdcproxy Not affected

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of Red Hat Product Security.

Mitigation

Add “LimitRequestBody 100000” to the <Location> stanza, like this:

    <Location "/KdcProxy">
        Satisfy Any
        Order Deny,Allow
        Allow from all
        WSGIProcessGroup kdcproxy
        WSGIApplicationGroup kdcproxy
        LimitRequestBody 100000
    </Location>

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