CVE-2016-2146

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2146
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-2146.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-2146
Downstream
Published
2016-04-15T14:59:12.083Z
Modified
2026-03-15T22:05:35.480482Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The amreadpostdata function in modauth_mellon before 0.11.1 does not limit the amount of data read, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (worker process crash, web server deadlock, or memory consumption) via a large amount of POST data.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/uninett/mod_auth_mellon

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/uninett/mod_auth_mellon
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
cee415cfe12655dd0b511442bf96e36e8c07364d
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "0.11.0"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v0.*
v0.10.0
v0.11.0
v0.4.0
v0.5.0
v0.6.0
v0.6.0-rc1
v0.6.1
v0.7.0
v0.8.0
v0.9.0
v0.9.1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-2146.json"
unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "23"
            }
        ]
    }
]