K15920 : Apache vulnerability CVE-2011-0419

Security Advisory Description

Stack consumption vulnerability in the fnmatch implementation in apr_fnmatch.c in the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library before 1.4.3 and the Apache HTTP Server before 2.2.18, and in fnmatch.c in libc in NetBSD 5.1, OpenBSD 4.8, FreeBSD, Apple Mac OS X 10.6, Oracle Solaris 10, and Android, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via *? sequences in the first argument, as demonstrated by attacks against mod_autoindex in httpd. (CVE-2011-0419)

Impact

This vulnerability may allow remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) attack (CPU and memory consumption) on the BIG-IP Configuration utility and the ARX management API.