CVE-2014-3523 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2014-3523?

CVE-2014-3523 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apache Http Server, published on 20 Jul 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Memory leak in the winnt_accept function in server/mpm/winnt/child.c in the WinNT MPM in the Apache HTTP Server 2.4.x before 2.4.10 on Windows, when the default AcceptFilter is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via crafted requests.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-3523?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Apache Http Server.

How do I fix CVE-2014-3523?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2014-3523 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3523 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-jvhm-2h34-2h38.