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CVE-2010-1623

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 20.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2010-10-04 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Memory leak in the apr_brigade_split_line function in buckets/apr_brigade.c in the Apache Portable Runtime Utility library (aka APR-util) before 1.3.10, as used in the mod_reqtimeout module in the Apache HTTP Server and other software, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified vectors related to the destruction of an APR bucket.

Affected products

• Apache Apr-Util: through 1.3.9; 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3, 0.9.4, 0.9.5, 0.9.6 (+36)
• Apache HTTP Server: from 2.0.35 before 2.0.64; from 2.2.0 before 2.2.17 — fixed in 2.0.64, 2.2.17

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Apache HTTP Server 2.0.64, 2.2.17. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/cve_2010_1623_memory_leak
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/049885.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/049939.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00011.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=130168502603566&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/41701
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42015
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42361
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42367
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42403
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42537
• http://secunia.com/advisories/43211

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