UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2145

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2145
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2145.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2145
Upstream
Withdrawn
2025-07-18T16:43:25Z
Published
2016-04-15T14:59:00Z
Modified
2025-07-16T08:18:58.991281Z
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
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

The amreadpostdata function in modauthmellon before 0.11.1 does not check if the apgetclientblock function returns an error, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and process crash) via a crafted POST data.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / libapache2-mod-auth-mellon

Package

Name
libapache2-mod-auth-mellon
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/libapache2-mod-auth-mellon@0.12.0-1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.12.0-1

Affected versions

0.*

0.10.0-1
0.11.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libapache2-mod-auth-mellon",
            "binary_version": "0.12.0-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libapache2-mod-auth-mellon-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "0.12.0-1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2145.json"