CVE-2005-1268

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-08-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-193

Description

Off-by-one error in the mod_ssl Certificate Revocation List (CRL) verification callback in Apache, when configured to use a CRL, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (child process crash) via a CRL that causes a buffer overflow of one null byte.

Affected products

Apache HTTP Server: from 2.0.35 through 2.0.54
Debian Linux: 3.1
RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 3.0, 4.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 3.0, 4.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 3.0, 4.0

References

http://lists.trustix.org/pipermail/tsl-announce/2005-October/000354.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-582.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/19072
http://secunia.com/advisories/19185
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/604
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102198-1
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-081.htm
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-805
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:129
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_46_apache.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/428138/100/0/threaded

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