National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2006-3747
Orirignal release date: 2006-07-28
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    Off-by-one error in the ldap scheme handling in the Rewrite module (mod_rewrite) in Apache 1.3 from 1.3.28, 2.0.46 and other versions before 2.0.59, and 2.2, when RewriteEngine is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted URLs that are not properly handled using certain rewrite rules.

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 7.0 (High)
    Range: remote
    Authentication: exception
    Impact Type: avail,conf,int,sec_prot user="1"

Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Vulnerable Software and Vendor

    Ubuntu Linux (Ubuntu)
    Apache (Apache Software Foundation)

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3747