CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-6312

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2017-07-17 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-07-17
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Description

The mod_dontdothat component of the mod_dav_svn Apache module in Subversion as packaged in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.11 does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote authenticated users with access to the webdav repository to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and httpd crash). NOTE: Exists as a regression to CVE-2009-1955.

Affected configurations

• redhat enterprise linux 5.11

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References