CVE-2010-0010

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 43.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-02-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in the ap_proxy_send_fb function in proxy/proxy_util.c in mod_proxy in the Apache HTTP Server before 1.3.42 on 64-bit platforms allows remote origin servers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a large chunk size that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

Apache HTTP Server: through 1.3.41; 0.8.11, 0.8.14, 1.0, 1.0.3, 1.0.5, 1.1 (+39)

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2010-01/0589.html
http://blog.pi3.com.pl/?p=69
http://httpd.apache.org/dev/dist/CHANGES_1.3.42
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-04/msg00006.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=130497311408250&w=2
http://packetstormsecurity.org/1001-exploits/modproxy-overflow.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/38319
http://secunia.com/advisories/39656
http://site.pi3.com.pl/adv/mod_proxy.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/509185/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37966
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023533

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