Candidate: CVE-2016-2146
PublicDate: 2016-04-15 14:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2146
 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1315747
Description:
 The am_read_post_data function in mod_auth_mellon before 0.11.1 does not
 limit the amount of data read, which allows remote attackers to cause a
 denial of service (worker process crash, web server deadlock, or memory
 consumption) via a large amount of POST data.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H [7.5 HIGH]

Patches_libapache2-mod-auth-mellon:
 upstream: https://github.com/UNINETT/mod_auth_mellon/commit/ccb7dc35b941667122e02d5e81a52e2e4718ccee
upstream_libapache2-mod-auth-mellon: released (0.12.0-1)
precise_libapache2-mod-auth-mellon: DNE
precise/esm_libapache2-mod-auth-mellon: DNE
trusty_libapache2-mod-auth-mellon: ignored (reached end-of-life)
trusty/esm_libapache2-mod-auth-mellon: DNE (trusty was needed)
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_libapache2-mod-auth-mellon: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_libapache2-mod-auth-mellon: DNE
wily_libapache2-mod-auth-mellon: ignored (reached end-of-life)
xenial_libapache2-mod-auth-mellon: not-affected (0.12.0-1)
yakkety_libapache2-mod-auth-mellon: not-affected (0.12.0-1)
zesty_libapache2-mod-auth-mellon: not-affected (0.12.0-1)
artful_libapache2-mod-auth-mellon: not-affected (0.12.0-1)
bionic_libapache2-mod-auth-mellon: not-affected (0.12.0-1)
cosmic_libapache2-mod-auth-mellon: not-affected (0.12.0-1)
disco_libapache2-mod-auth-mellon: not-affected (0.12.0-1)
devel_libapache2-mod-auth-mellon: not-affected (0.12.0-1)