CVE-2016-2146

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{"acknowledgement": "Red Hat would like to thank Olav Morken (Uninett) for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Vincent Rasneur as the original reporter.", "bugzilla": {"description": "mod_auth_mellon: Failure to limit amount of POST data submitted by client", "id": "1315747", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1315747"}, "csaw": false, "cvss": {"cvss_base_score": "4.3", "cvss_scoring_vector": "AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P", "status": "draft"}, "cwe": "CWE-20", "details": ["The am_read_post_data function in mod_auth_mellon before 0.11.1 does not limit the amount of data read, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (worker process crash, web server deadlock, or memory consumption) via a large amount of POST data."], "name": "CVE-2016-2146", "package_state": [{"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6", "fix_state": "Will not fix", "package_name": "mod_auth_mellon", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Will not fix", "package_name": "mod_auth_mellon", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}], "public_date": "2016-03-09T00:00:00Z", "references": ["https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2146\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2146"], "threat_severity": "Moderate"}

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