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CVE-2014-8566

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-11-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The mod_auth_mellon module before 0.8.1 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via unspecified vectors related to a "session overflow" involving "sessions overlapping in memory."

Affected products

• Oracle Corporation Oracle Linux: 6
• uninett mod_auth_mellon: through 0.8.0

References

• http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1803.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1803.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/62094
• http://secunia.com/advisories/62125
• https://github.com/UNINETT/mod_auth_mellon/releases/tag/v0.8.1
• https://postlister.uninett.no/sympa/arc/modmellon/2014-11/msg00000.html
• http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1803.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1803.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/62094
• http://secunia.com/advisories/62125
• https://github.com/UNINETT/mod_auth_mellon/releases/tag/v0.8.1
• https://postlister.uninett.no/sympa/arc/modmellon/2014-11/msg00000.html

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