CVE-2005-2970

Published Oct 25, 2005

Last updated 2 years ago

Overview

Description
Memory leak in the worker MPM (worker.c) for Apache 2, in certain circumstances, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via aborted connections, which prevents the memory for the transaction pool from being reused for other connections.
Source
secalert@redhat.com
NVD status
Modified

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Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
5
Impact score
2.9
Exploitability score
10
Vector string
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-770

Vendor comments

  • ApacheFixed in Apache HTTP Server 2.0.55: http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_20.html

Configurations

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