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CVE-2005-2970

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
25/10/2005
Last modified:
03/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:apache:http_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.0.36 (including) 2.0.55 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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