CVE-2005-3357

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 24.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

mod_ssl in Apache 2.0 up to 2.0.55, when configured with an SSL vhost with access control and a custom error 400 error page, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a non-SSL request to an SSL port, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

Affected products

Apache HTTP Server: 2.0, 2.0.9, 2.0.28, 2.0.28-beta, 2.0.32, 2.0.35 (+20)

References

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01428449
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37791
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//May/msg00001.html
http://lists.suse.de/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Feb/0008.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=130497311408250&w=2
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0159.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/18307
http://secunia.com/advisories/18333
http://secunia.com/advisories/18339
http://secunia.com/advisories/18340
http://secunia.com/advisories/18429

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