UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16789
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Summary:
Details: libhttp/url.c in shellinabox through 2.20 has an implementation flaw in the HTTP request parsing logic. By sending a crafted multipart/form-data HTTP request, an attacker could exploit this to force shellinaboxd into an infinite loop, exhausting available CPU resources and taking the service down.
References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-16789, https://github.com/shellinabox/shellinabox/pull/446, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16789
Affected packages
Package
Name: shellinabox
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
Introduced- 0
Fixed -None
Affected versions
2.17
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
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High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
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Integrity
None
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Availability
None
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High
