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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2010-0434 Detail

Description

The ap_read_request function in server/protocol.c in the Apache HTTP Server 2.2.x before 2.2.15, when a multithreaded MPM is used, does not properly handle headers in subrequests in certain circumstances involving a parent request that has a body, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted request that triggers access to memory locations associated with an earlier request.


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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (04/13/2010)

Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-0434 This issue was fixed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 via: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0168.html This issue was fixed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 via: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0175.html The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_22.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Mailing List 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039957.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/040652.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-04/msg00006.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000105.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=127557640302499&w=2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/39100 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable 
http://secunia.com/advisories/39115 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable 
http://secunia.com/advisories/39501 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable 
http://secunia.com/advisories/39628 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable 
http://secunia.com/advisories/39632 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable 
http://secunia.com/advisories/39656 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable 
http://secunia.com/advisories/40096 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable 
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/server/protocol.c?r1=917617&r2=917867&pathrev=917867&diff_format=h CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=917867 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=918427 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PM08939 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PM12247 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PM15829 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2035 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujuly2013-1899826.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0168.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0175.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38494 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2010-0014.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0911 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Permissions Required 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0994 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Permissions Required 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1001 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Permissions Required 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1057 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Permissions Required 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1411 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Permissions Required 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=570171 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/56625 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48359 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Vendor Advisory 
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/54a42d4b01968df1117cea77fc53d6beb931c0e05936ad02af93e9ac%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5df9bfb86a3b054bb985a45ff9250b0332c9ecc181eec232489e7f79%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8d63cb8e9100f28a99429b4328e4e7cebce861d5772ac9863ba2ae6f%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f7f95ac1cd9895db2714fa3ebaa0b94d0c6df360f742a40951384a53%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r0276683d8e1e07153fc8642618830ac0ade85b9ae0dc7b07f63bb8fc%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2cb985de917e7da0848c440535f65a247754db8b2154a10089e4247b%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r476d175be0aaf4a17680ef98c5153b4d336eaef76fb2224cc94c463a%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r57608dc51b79102f3952ae06f54d5277b649c86d6533dcd6a7d201f7%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5f9c22f9c28adbd9f00556059edc7b03a5d5bb71d4bb80257c0d34e4%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r688df6f16f141e966a0a47f817e559312b3da27886f59116a94b273d%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r75cbe9ea3e2114e4271bbeca7aff96117b50c1b6eb7c4772b0337c1f%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8828e649175df56f1f9e3919938ac7826128525426e2748f0ab62feb%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9e8622254184645bc963a1d47c5d47f6d5a36d6f080d8d2c43b2b142%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9ea3538f229874c80a10af473856a81fbf5f694cd7f471cc679ba70b%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9f93cf6dde308d42a9c807784e8102600d0397f5f834890708bf6920%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rad01d817195e6cc871cb1d73b207ca326379a20a6e7f30febaf56d24%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rad2acee3ab838b52c04a0698b1728a9a43467bf365bd481c993c535d%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb9c9f42dafa25d2f669dac2a536a03f2575bc5ec1be6f480618aee10%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rdca61ae990660bacb682295f2a09d34612b7bb5f457577fe17f4d064%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/re2e23465bbdb17ffe109d21b4f192e6b58221cd7aa8797d530b4cd75%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf6449464fd8b7437704c55f88361b66f12d5b5f90bcce66af4be4ba9%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rfbaf647d52c1cb843e726a0933f156366a806cead84fbd430951591b%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10358 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8695 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2010-0434
NVD Published Date:
03/05/2010
NVD Last Modified:
04/28/2026
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.