TITLE:
Libapreq2 Unspecified Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA18846

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http://secunia.com/advisories/18846/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Libapreq2 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/8138/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Libapreq2, which potentially can
be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to errors in the
"apreq_parse_headers()" and "apreq_parse_urlencoded()" functions that
may cause quadratic behavior. This may be exploited to cause a DoS.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions prior to 2.07.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.07.
http://httpd.apache.org/apreq/download.cgi

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/httpd/apreq/tags/v2_07/CHANGES?rev=376998&view=markup

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