A vulnerability has been identified in Apache, which could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise a vulnerable server or cause a denial of service. This flaw is due to an off-by-one buffer overflow error in the "escape_absolute_uri()" function when processing a specially crafted LDAP URI, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands on a web server configured with certain Rewrite rules (the attacker must be able to control the initial part of the rewritten URL, and the rule must not contain a forbidden [F], gone [G], or NoEscape [NE] flag).
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Mark Dowd
ChangeLog
2006-07-28 : Initial release
2006-07-28 : Updated Advisory
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