Apache HTTP Server protocol handler for the HTTP/2 protocol checks received request headers against the size limitations as configured for the server and used for the HTTP/1 protocol as well. On violation of these restrictions and HTTP response is sent to the client with a status code indicating why the request was rejected. This rejection response was not fully initialised in the HTTP/2 protocol handler if the offending header was the very first one received or appeared in a a footer. This led to a NULL pointer dereference on initialised memory, crashing reliably the child process. Since such a triggering HTTP/2 request is easy to craft and submit, this can be exploited to DoS the server. This issue affected mod_http2 1.15.17 and Apache HTTP Server version 2.4.47 only. Apache HTTP Server 2.4.47 was never released.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apache

Published: 2021-06-15T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-03T23:03:33.651Z

Reserved: 2021-04-23T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-31618

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T23:03:33.651Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-06-15T09:15:07.960

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:06:02.403

Link: CVE-2021-31618

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2021-06-04T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-31618 - Bugzilla