Bug 887449 (CVE-2012-5640) - CVE-2012-5640 thttpd: Denial of Service when using glibc, crypt() can return NULL
Summary: CVE-2012-5640 thttpd: Denial of Service when using glibc, crypt() can return ...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2012-5640
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 887450 887451
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-12-15 12:12 UTC by Kurt Seifried
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:58 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:59:44 UTC
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Description Kurt Seifried 2012-12-15 12:12:13 UTC
Matthias Weckbecker (mweckbecker) reported on OSS-SEC that the thttpd
daemon may experience a denial of service when using glibc due to glibc 
crypt()returning a NULL while dereferencing. This can be triggered via a 
specially formatted .htpassword entry that is then used to authenticate for 
example.

Comment 1 Kurt Seifried 2012-12-15 12:16:15 UTC
Created thttpd tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 887450]

Comment 2 Kurt Seifried 2012-12-15 12:17:25 UTC
Created thttpd tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: epel-all [bug 887451]

Comment 3 pjp 2014-11-01 10:38:24 UTC
Upstream fix:
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  -> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783165#c13

Comment 4 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-10 10:59:44 UTC
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.


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