CVE-2012-0031 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2012-0031?

CVE-2012-0031 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Apache Http Server, published on 18 Jan 2012. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

scoreboard.c in the Apache HTTP Server 2.2.21 and earlier might allow local users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash during shutdown) or possibly have unspecified other impact by modifying a certain type field within a scoreboard shared memory segment, leading to an invalid call to the free function.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-0031?

It affects 12 products.

Products include Apache Http Server, Debian Debian Linux, Opensuse Opensuse, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Eus, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server and 6 more.

How do I fix CVE-2012-0031?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2012-0031 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-0031 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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 DEBIAN-CVE-2012-0031, GHSA-9mf5-9fjr-xvhw.