CVE-2009-1903 Information

Description

The PDF XSS protection feature in ModSecurity before 2.5.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Apache httpd crash) via a request for a PDF file that does not use the GET method.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/34256 http://secunia.com/advisories/34311 http://secunia.com/advisories/35687 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-02.xml http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=667538 http://www.osvdb.org/52552 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34096 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0703 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49211 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00487.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00529.html