Resource exhaustion in Debian Linux - CVE-2011-4082

 

Resource exhaustion in Debian Linux - CVE-2011-4082

Published: November 26, 2019 / Updated: August 8, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU35032
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2011-4082
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

A local file inclusion flaw was found in the way the phpLDAPadmin before 0.9.8 processed certain values of the "Accept-Language" HTTP header. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service via specially-crafted request.


Affected software

Debian Linux

How to mitigate CVE-2011-4082

Install update from vendor's website.


External References

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