CVE-2005-2970 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2005-2970
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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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: UBUNTU http://www.ubuntulinux.org/usn/usn-225-1/document_view SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_28_sr.html ST 1015093 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA18585 Secunia Advisory: SA18333 Secunia Advisory: SA18161 Secunia Advisory: SA17923 Secunia Advisory: SA16559 REDHAT http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0159.html MANDRIVA http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:233 FEDORA http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/425399/100/0/threaded http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-January/msg00060.html CONFIRM http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-cvs/200509.mbox/%3C20051001110218.40692.qmail@minotaur.apache.org%3E http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=292949&view=rev BID 15762

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