CVE-2016-2146

See a problem?
Please try reporting it to the source first.
Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2146
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-2146.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-2146
Downstream
Published
2016-04-15T14:59:12.083Z
Modified
2026-02-11T13:49:07.599505Z
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 / git.zx2c4.com/cgit

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
5e3e665d60c3c1f25443d1cc0ff1f7f2fe5fbf94

Affected versions

v0.*
v0.1
v0.10
v0.10.1
v0.10.2
v0.11.0
v0.2
v0.3
v0.4
v0.5
v0.6
v0.6.1
v0.6.2
v0.6.3
v0.7
v0.7.1
v0.7.2
v0.8
v0.8.1
v0.8.1.1
v0.8.2
v0.8.2.1
v0.8.2.2
v0.8.3
v0.8.3.1
v0.8.3.2
v0.8.3.3
v0.8.3.4
v0.8.3.5
v0.9
v0.9.0.1
v0.9.0.2
v0.9.0.3
v0.9.1
v0.9.2

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-2146.json"