{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15715","details":"In Apache httpd 2.4.0 to 2.4.29, the expression specified in \u003cFilesMatch\u003e could match '$' to a newline character in a malicious filename, rather than matching only the end of the filename. 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