CVE-2003-0542

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 30.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2003-11-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

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.

Affected products

Apache HTTP Server: 1.3, 1.3.1, 1.3.3, 1.3.4, 1.3.6, 1.3.9 (+30)

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798
http://httpd.apache.org/dist/httpd/Announcement2.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2004/Jan/msg00000.html
http://lists.apple.com/mhonarc/security-announce/msg00045.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106761802305141&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=130497311408250&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/10096
http://secunia.com/advisories/10098
http://secunia.com/advisories/10102

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