CVE-2012-0256

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-03-26 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Apache Traffic Server 2.0.x and 3.0.x before 3.0.4 and 3.1.x before 3.1.3 does not properly allocate heap memory, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a long HTTP Host header.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Traffic Server: 2.0.0, 2.0.0-alpha, 2.0.1, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.1.2 (+14)

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-03/0118.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Mar/260
http://trafficserver.apache.org/downloads
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52696
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026847
https://www.cert.fi/en/reports/2012/vulnerability612884.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-03/0118.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Mar/260
http://trafficserver.apache.org/downloads
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52696
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026847
https://www.cert.fi/en/reports/2012/vulnerability612884.html

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