CVE-2005-2970

medium Apache
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS Score
20.8%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 4% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
P
Published: October 25, 2005 (7505 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Apache
Source: NVD

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.

CWE

CWE-770

Affected Products

apache http servercanonical ubuntu linuxredhat enterprise linux desktopredhat enterprise linux serverredhat enterprise linux workstationfedoraproject fedora core

References

🔗 mail-archives.apache.org 🔗 rhn.redhat.com 🔗 secunia.com 🔗 secunia.com 🔗 secunia.com