CVE-2004-0942 - Unaltered Lesson

Description

Apache webserver 2.0.52 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an HTTP GET request with a MIME header containing multiple lines with a large number of space characters.

Reference

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-November/028248.html http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=HPSBUX01123 http://www.trustix.org/errata/2004/0061/ http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005//Aug/msg00001.html http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102198-1 http://secunia.com/advisories/19072 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-562.html http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-081.htm http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Aug/msg00000.html http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:135 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0789 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110384374213596&w=2 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17930 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10962 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/54a42d4b01968df1117cea77fc53d6beb931c0e05936ad02af93e9ac@%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5df9bfb86a3b054bb985a45ff9250b0332c9ecc181eec232489e7f79@%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r0276683d8e1e07153fc8642618830ac0ade85b9ae0dc7b07f63bb8fc@%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8828e649175df56f1f9e3919938ac7826128525426e2748f0ab62feb@%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf6449464fd8b7437704c55f88361b66f12d5b5f90bcce66af4be4ba9@%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd65d8ba68ba17e7deedafbf5bb4899f2ae4dad781d21b931c2941ac3@%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/re895fc1736d25c8cf57e102c871613b8aeec9ea26fd8a44e7942b5ab@%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E