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CVE-2013-6438

Published: Mar 18, 2014

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

The dav_xml_get_cdata function in main/util.c in the mod_dav module in the Apache HTTP Server before 2.4.8 does not properly remove whitespace characters from CDATA sections, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted DAV WRITE request.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/multiple_input_validation_vulnerabilities_in1

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https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2013-6438

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third-party-advisory

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third-party-advisory

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https://support.apple.com/HT204659

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http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0135.html

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http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0012.html

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http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10698

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http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/CHANGES

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vendor-advisory

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http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21676092

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http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/trunk/modules/dav/main/util.c?r1=1528718&r2=1556428&diff_format=h

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third-party-advisory

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vdb-entry

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vendor-advisory

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20141205 NEW: VMSA-2014-0012 - VMware vSphere product updates address security vulnerabilities

mailing-list

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http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2015-1972971.html

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vendor-advisory

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APPLE-SA-2014-10-16-1

vendor-advisory

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third-party-advisory

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http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2014-1972956.html

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APPLE-SA-2015-04-08-2

vendor-advisory

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https://support.apple.com/kb/HT6535

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20141205 NEW: VMSA-2014-0012 - VMware vSphere product updates address security vulnerabilities

mailing-list

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http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/trunk/modules/dav/main/util.c

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vendor-advisory

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https://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html

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http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21676091

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vendor-advisory

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http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/CHANGES_2.4.9

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http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21669554

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[httpd-cvs] 20190815 svn commit: r1048743 [4/4] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/vulnerabilities-httpd.xml security/vulnerabilities_13.html security/vulnerabilities_20.html security/vulnerabilities_22.html security/vulnerabilities_24.html

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[httpd-cvs] 20190815 svn commit: r1048742 [4/4] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/vulnerabilities-httpd.xml security/vulnerabilities_13.html security/vulnerabilities_20.html security/vulnerabilities_22.html security/vulnerabilities_24.html

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[httpd-cvs] 20190815 svn commit: r1048743 [3/4] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/vulnerabilities-httpd.xml security/vulnerabilities_13.html security/vulnerabilities_20.html security/vulnerabilities_22.html security/vulnerabilities_24.html

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[httpd-cvs] 20190815 svn commit: r1048742 [3/4] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/vulnerabilities-httpd.xml security/vulnerabilities_13.html security/vulnerabilities_20.html security/vulnerabilities_22.html security/vulnerabilities_24.html

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[httpd-cvs] 20200401 svn commit: r1058586 [3/4] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/vulnerabilities-httpd.xml security/vulnerabilities_13.html security/vulnerabilities_20.html security/vulnerabilities_22.html security/vulnerabilities_24.html

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[httpd-cvs] 20200401 svn commit: r1058586 [4/4] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/vulnerabilities-httpd.xml security/vulnerabilities_13.html security/vulnerabilities_20.html security/vulnerabilities_22.html security/vulnerabilities_24.html

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[httpd-cvs] 20200401 svn commit: r1058587 [4/4] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/vulnerabilities-httpd.xml security/vulnerabilities_13.html security/vulnerabilities_20.html security/vulnerabilities_22.html security/vulnerabilities_24.html

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[httpd-cvs] 20200401 svn commit: r1058587 [3/4] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/vulnerabilities-httpd.xml security/vulnerabilities_13.html security/vulnerabilities_20.html security/vulnerabilities_22.html security/vulnerabilities_24.html

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[httpd-cvs] 20210330 svn commit: r1073139 [1/13] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/json/

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[httpd-cvs] 20210330 svn commit: r1073139 [9/13] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/json/

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[httpd-cvs] 20210330 svn commit: r1073140 [3/4] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/cvejsontohtml.py security/vulnerabilities_13.html security/vulnerabilities_20.html security/vulnerabilities_22.html security/vulnerabilities_24.html

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[httpd-cvs] 20210330 svn commit: r1073140 [4/4] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/cvejsontohtml.py security/vulnerabilities_13.html security/vulnerabilities_20.html security/vulnerabilities_22.html security/vulnerabilities_24.html

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[httpd-cvs] 20210330 svn commit: r1888194 [9/13] - /httpd/site/trunk/content/security/json/

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[httpd-cvs] 20210330 svn commit: r1073149 [9/13] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/ security/json/

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[httpd-cvs] 20210330 svn commit: r1073146 [2/3] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/cvejsontohtml.py security/vulnerabilities-httpd.xml security/vulnerabilities_22.html security/vulnerabilities_24.html

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[httpd-cvs] 20210330 svn commit: r1073149 [1/13] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/ security/json/

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[httpd-cvs] 20210330 svn commit: r1073146 [3/3] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/cvejsontohtml.py security/vulnerabilities-httpd.xml security/vulnerabilities_22.html security/vulnerabilities_24.html

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[httpd-cvs] 20210606 svn commit: r1075470 [3/4] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/json/CVE-2020-13938.json security/vulnerabilities_13.html security/vulnerabilities_20.html security/vulnerabilities_22.html security/vulnerabilities_24.html

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