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Gentoo: GLSA-202310-01 Critical: ModSecurity Exploit Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey July 2, 2009
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Gentoo GLSA 202310-01 highlights vulnerabilities in ModSecurity that could lead to potential Denial of Service; an upgrade is recommended for enhanced security.
Two vulnerabilities in ModSecurity might lead to a Denial of Service.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200907-02 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: ModSecurity: Denial of Service Date: July 02, 2009 Bugs: #262302 ID: 200907-02

Synopsis ======= Two vulnerabilities in ModSecurity might lead to a Denial of Service.
Background ========= ModSecurity is a popular web application firewall for the Apache HTTP server.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-apache/mod_security < 2.5.9 >= 2.5.9
========== Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in ModSecurity:
* Juan Galiana Lara of ISecAuditors discovered a NULL pointer dereference when processing multipart requests without a part header name (CVE-20...

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