CVE-2009-1902 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2009-1902?

CVE-2009-1902 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 3 Jun 2009. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The multipart processor in ModSecurity before 2.5.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a multipart form datapost request with a missing part header name, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-1902?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Trustwave Modsecurity.

How do I fix CVE-2009-1902?

No fix has been published for CVE-2009-1902 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2009-1902 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2009-1902 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-vj86-92j3-rr4c.