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CVE-2012-5640

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Nov 25, 2019 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5640
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

thttpd has a local DoS vulnerability via specially-crafted .htpasswd files

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Thttpd Acme - (including) - (including)

Potential Mitigations

References

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