CVE-2011-0419
Stack consumption vulnerability in the fnmatch implementation in apr_fnmatch.c in the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library before 1.4.3 and the Apache HTTP Server before 2.2.18, and in fnmatch.c in libc in NetBSD 5.1, OpenBSD 4.8, FreeBSD, Apple Mac OS X 10.6, Oracle Solaris 10, and Android, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via *? sequences in the first argument, as demonstrated by attacks against mod_autoindex in httpd.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-770
- EPSS score
- 30.4% (98th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-0445)
- Published
- May 16, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-0445 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- apache / http server
- apache / portable runtime
- apple / mac os x
- debian / debian linux
- debian / debian linux
- debian / debian linux
- freebsd / freebsd
- google / android
- netbsd / netbsd
- openbsd / openbsd
- oracle / solaris
- suse / linux enterprise server
Certified products that may be affected
7 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified products, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- Google Pixel Devices on Android 15 - Google LLC - Common Criteria CCEVS-VR-VID-11545-2025 - active
- Google Pixel Devices on Android 14 - Google LLC - Common Criteria CCEVS-VR-VID-11419-2024 - archived
- Google Pixel Devices on Android 13 - Google LLC - Common Criteria CCEVS-VR-11317-2023 - archived
- Google Pixel Phones on Android 12.0 - Google LLC - Common Criteria CCEVS-VR-11239-2022 - archived
- Google Pixel Phones on Android 11.0 - Google LLC - Common Criteria CCEVS-VR-11124-2021 - archived
See all 7 in the Security Certifications Explorer.
References
- http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/gen/fnmatch.c#rev1.22(Third Party Advisory)
- http://cxib.net/stuff/apache.fnmatch.phps(Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- http://cxib.net/stuff/apr_fnmatch.txts(Third Party Advisory)
- http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_22.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00003.html(Broken Link)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00011.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=131551295528105&w=2(Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=131731002122529&w=2(Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=132033751509019&w=2(Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134987041210674&w=2(Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44490(Not Applicable, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44564(Not Applicable, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44574(Not Applicable, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48308(Not Applicable)
- http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/98(Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8246(Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1025527(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5002(Third Party Advisory)
- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/apr/apr/branches/1.4.x/strings/apr_fnmatch.c?r1=731029&r2=1098902(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1098188(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1098799(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.apache.org/dist/apr/Announcement1.x.html(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.apache.org/dist/apr/CHANGES-APR-1.4(Broken Link)
- http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/Announcement2.2.html(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2237(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40apr.apache.org/msg23960.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40apr.apache.org/msg23961.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40apr.apache.org/msg23976.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:084(Broken Link)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:150(Broken Link)
- http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/gen/fnmatch.c#rev1.15(Broken Link)
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2012-392727.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujuly2013-1899826.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0507.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0896.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0897.html(Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=703390(Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/54a42d4b01968df1117cea77fc53d6beb931c0e05936ad02af93e9ac%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E(Third Party Advisory)
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5df9bfb86a3b054bb985a45ff9250b0332c9ecc181eec232489e7f79%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E(Third Party Advisory)
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8d63cb8e9100f28a99429b4328e4e7cebce861d5772ac9863ba2ae6f%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E(Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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