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CVE-2005-2970

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.

Published

2005-10-25T17:06:00.000

Last Modified

2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 5.0 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

  • Access Vector: NETWORK
  • Access Complexity: LOW
  • Authentication: NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: NONE
  • Availability Impact: PARTIAL
Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses
  • Type: Primary
    CWE-770
Affected Vendors & Products
Type Vendor Product Version/Range Vulnerable?
Application apache http_server < 2.0.55 Yes
Operating System canonical ubuntu_linux 4.10 Yes
Operating System canonical ubuntu_linux 5.04 Yes
Operating System canonical ubuntu_linux 5.10 Yes
Operating System redhat enterprise_linux_desktop 3.0 Yes
Operating System redhat enterprise_linux_desktop 4.0 Yes
Operating System redhat enterprise_linux_server 3.0 Yes
Operating System redhat enterprise_linux_server 4.0 Yes
Operating System redhat enterprise_linux_workstation 3.0 Yes
Operating System redhat enterprise_linux_workstation 4.0 Yes
Operating System fedoraproject fedora_core 4 Yes
References