ubuntu · CVE-2017-9788

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Priority: medium Published: 2017-07-13 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:42:04 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2017-9788 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (apache2), 5 status rows across 5 suites (trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): released 4, ignored 1.

Description:

In Apache httpd before 2.2.34 and 2.4.x before 2.4.27, the value placeholder in [Proxy-]Authorization headers of type 'Digest' was not initialized or reset before or between successive key=value assignments by mod_auth_digest. Providing an initial key with no '=' assignment could reflect the stale value of uninitialized pool memory used by the prior request, leading to leakage of potentially confidential information, and a segfault in other cases resulting in denial of service.

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