Wednesday, December 1, 2010

APR-util: Denial of Service Vulnerability

Users of APR-util please be advised of a Denial of Service vulnerability that has been identified.

To view this vulnerability, possible remedies, and others please check out the Security Advisories at Critical Watch (http://criticalwatch.com/support/security-advisories.aspx)

Amplify’d from www.criticalwatch.com
USN-1022-1: [USN-1022-1] APR-util - Denial of Service Issue
Details follow:



It was discovered that APR-util did not properly handle memory when

destroying APR buckets. An attacker could exploit this and cause a denial

of service via memory exhaustion.


Read more at www.criticalwatch.com
 

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