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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.800626
Category:Web Servers
Title:ModSecurity Multiple Remote Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Summary:ModSecurity is prone to Denial of Service Vulnerabilities.
Description:Summary:
ModSecurity is prone to Denial of Service Vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Insight:
Multiple flaws exist due to:

- An error in the PDF XSS protection implementation which can be exploited
to cause a crash via a specially crafted HTTP request.

- NULL pointer dereference error when parsing multipart requests can be
exploited to cause a crash via multipart content with a missing part header
name.

Vulnerability Impact:
Successful exploitation could allow remote attackers to cause denial of
service.

Affected Software/OS:
ModSecurity version prior to 2.5.9 on Linux.

Solution:
Upgrade to version 2.5.9 or later.

CVSS Score:
5.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-1902
BugTraq ID: 34096
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34096
Bugtraq: 20090319 [ISecAuditors Security Advisories] ModSecurity < 2.5.9 remote Denial of Service (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501968
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8241
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00487.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00529.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-02.xml
http://www.osvdb.org/52553
http://secunia.com/advisories/34256
http://secunia.com/advisories/34311
http://secunia.com/advisories/35687
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2009:011 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00003.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0703
XForce ISS Database: modsecurity-multipart-dos(49212)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49212
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-1903
http://www.osvdb.org/52552
XForce ISS Database: modsecurity-pdfxss-dos(49211)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49211
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AG

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