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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 …

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
ApacheHttp Server
from 2.0.36 before 2.0.55
CanonicalUbuntu Linux
Versions 4.10, 5.04, 5.10
RedhatEnterprise Linux Desktop
Versions 3.0, 4.0
RedhatEnterprise Linux Server
Versions 3.0, 4.0
RedhatEnterprise Linux Workstation
Versions 3.0, 4.0
FedoraprojectFedora Core
Version 4

Weakness classification

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