Vulnerability CVE-2007-6422
Published: 2008-01-08   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
The balancer_handler function in mod_proxy_balancer in the Apache HTTP Server 2.2.0 through 2.2.6, when a threaded Multi-Processing Module is used, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (child process crash) via an invalid bb variable.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Low
Apache2 CSRF, XSS, Memory Corruption and Denial of Service Vulnerability
sp3x
09.01.2008

Type:

CWE-399

 (Resource Management Errors)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4/10
2.9/10
8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Apache -> Http server 

 References:
http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_22.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00004.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-19.xml
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3523
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:016
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0008.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0009.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486169/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27236
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-575-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0048
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39476
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10181
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8690
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00541.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00562.html
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