A vulnerability has been identified in Apache, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by an error in the "ap_proxy_date_canon()" [modules/proxy/proxy_util.c] function when processing specially crafted date headers, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a vulnerable process to crash when a reverse or forward proxy is configured.
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Vulnerability reported by the vendor.
ChangeLog
2007-08-31 : Initial release
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