K3144 : Apache mod_alias buffer overflow vulnerability CAN-2003-0542

Security Advisory Description

Note: Versions that are not listed in this article have not been evaluated for vulnerability to this security advisory. For information about the F5 security policy regarding evaluating older and unsupported versions of F5 products, refer to K4602: Overview of the F5 security vulnerability response policy.

F5 products and versions that have been evaluated for this Security Advisory

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in (1) mod_alias and (2) mod_rewrite for Apache before 1.3.29 allow attackers to create configuration files to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a regular expression with more than 9 captures.

Although the Configuration utility for F5 products is based on Apache, these products do not provide a way to configure the system to exploit this Apache vulnerability.

Information about this advisory is available at the following location:

<http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2003-0542&gt;