Debian Security Advisory
DSA-558-1 libapache-mod-dav -- null pointer dereference
- Date Reported:
- 06 Oct 2004
- Affected Packages:
- libapache-mod-dav
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0809.
- More information:
-
Julian Reschke reported a problem in mod_dav of Apache 2 in connection with a NULL pointer dereference. When running in a threaded model, especially with Apache 2, a segmentation fault can take out a whole process and hence create a denial of service for the whole server.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.3-3.1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.3-10 of libapache-mod-dav and in version 2.0.51-1 of Apache 2.
We recommend that you upgrade your mod_dav packages.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libapache-mod-dav/libapache-mod-dav_1.0.3-3.1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libapache-mod-dav/libapache-mod-dav_1.0.3-3.1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libapache-mod-dav/libapache-mod-dav_1.0.3.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libapache-mod-dav/libapache-mod-dav_1.0.3-3.1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libapache-mod-dav/libapache-mod-dav_1.0.3-3.1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libapache-mod-dav/libapache-mod-dav_1.0.3-3.1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libapache-mod-dav/libapache-mod-dav_1.0.3-3.1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libapache-mod-dav/libapache-mod-dav_1.0.3-3.1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libapache-mod-dav/libapache-mod-dav_1.0.3-3.1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libapache-mod-dav/libapache-mod-dav_1.0.3-3.1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libapache-mod-dav/libapache-mod-dav_1.0.3-3.1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libapache-mod-dav/libapache-mod-dav_1.0.3-3.1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libapache-mod-dav/libapache-mod-dav_1.0.3-3.1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libapache-mod-dav/libapache-mod-dav_1.0.3-3.1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/liba/libapache-mod-dav/libapache-mod-dav_1.0.3-3.1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.