ubuntu · CVE-2016-2145

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-04-15 14:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:56:41 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-2145 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (libapache2-mod-auth-mellon), 11 status rows across 11 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, precise, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 7, DNE 2, ignored 1, released 1.

Description:

The am_read_post_data function in mod_auth_mellon before 0.11.1 does not check if the ap_get_client_block function returns an error, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and process crash) via a crafted POST data.

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