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CVE-2005-2970

medium · 5

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.

5
CVSS
14.2%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
96th
EPSS percentile
2005-10-25
Published

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

Weaknesses

CWE-770

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
apachehttp_server>= 2.0.36, < 2.0.55
canonicalubuntu_linux4.10
canonicalubuntu_linux5.04
canonicalubuntu_linux5.10
redhatenterprise_linux_desktop3.0
redhatenterprise_linux_desktop4.0
redhatenterprise_linux_server3.0
redhatenterprise_linux_server4.0
redhatenterprise_linux_workstation3.0
redhatenterprise_linux_workstation4.0
fedoraprojectfedora_core4

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References

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