CVE-2014-9016 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2014-9016?

CVE-2014-9016 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 24 Nov 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The password hashing API in Drupal 7.x before 7.34 and the Secure Password Hashes (aka phpass) module 6.x-2.x before 6.x-2.1 for Drupal allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a crafted request.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-9016?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Drupal Drupal, Secure Password Hashes Project Secure Passwords Hashes.

How do I fix CVE-2014-9016?

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-2014-9016 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2014-9016 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Metasploit module, 1 Exploit-DB entry and 2 proofs of concept on GitHub.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-cfc7-w9hw-779w, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9016.