Apache HTTP Server mod_cache Denial of Service Vulnerability

A vulnerability has been identified in Apache HTTP Server, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to a NULL pointer dereference error within the "cache_merge_headers_out()" function (modules/cache/cache_util.c), which can be exploited to cause a crash via a content-type field with an empty value.