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CVE-2016-2145

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-04-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The am_read_post_data function in mod_auth_mellon before 0.11.1 does not check if the ap_get_client_block function returns an error, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and process crash) via a crafted POST data.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 23
• uninett mod_auth_mellon: through 0.11.0

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/179085.html
• https://github.com/UNINETT/mod_auth_mellon/pull/71
• https://sympa.uninett.no/lists/uninett.no/arc/modmellon/2016-03/msg00000.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/179085.html
• https://github.com/UNINETT/mod_auth_mellon/pull/71
• https://sympa.uninett.no/lists/uninett.no/arc/modmellon/2016-03/msg00000.html

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