Vulnerability Bulletins |
DSA-2991 modsecurity-apache - security update |
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| Affected software | Debian |
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Martin Holst Swende discovered a flaw in the way chunked requests arehandled in ModSecurity, an Apache module whose purpose is to tighten theWeb application security. A remote attacker could use this flaw tobypass intended mod_security restrictions by using chunked transfercoding with a capitalized Chunked value in the Transfer-Encoding HTTPheader, allowing to send requests containing content that should havebeen removed by mod_security. More info: https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2991 |
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