CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-7659

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Jul 26, 2017 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
5.9 MODERATE
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

A maliciously constructed HTTP/2 request could cause mod_http2 in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.24, 2.4.25 to dereference a NULL pointer and crash the server process.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Http_server Apache 2.4.24 (including) 2.4.24 (including)
Http_server Apache 2.4.25 (including) 2.4.25 (including)
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat httpd24-httpd-0:2.4.25-9.el6.1 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUS RedHat httpd24-httpd-0:2.4.25-9.el6.1 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat httpd24-httpd-0:2.4.25-9.el7.1 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 EUS RedHat httpd24-httpd-0:2.4.25-9.el7.1 *
Apache2 Ubuntu devel *
Apache2 Ubuntu upstream *

Potential Mitigations

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