Cherokee 0.4.27 to 1.2.104 is affected by a denial of service due to a NULL pointer dereferences. A remote unauthenticated attacker can crash the server by sending an HTTP request to protected resources using a malformed Authorization header that is mishandled during a cherokee_buffer_add call within cherokee_validator_parse_basic or cherokee_validator_parse_digest.
References
Link Resource
http://cherokee-project.com/downloads.html Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1242 Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/releases Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-09 Third Party Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2020-07-27T22:56:01

Updated: 2020-12-23T21:06:17

Reserved: 2020-05-14T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2020-12845

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2020-07-27T23:15:12.437

Modified: 2022-11-29T02:37:13.437


Link: CVE-2020-12845

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