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.

Project Subscriptions

Vendors Products
Http Server Subscribe
Canonical Subscribe
Ubuntu Linux Subscribe
Fedoraproject Subscribe
Fedora Core Subscribe
Enterprise Linux Subscribe
Enterprise Linux Desktop Subscribe
Enterprise Linux Server Subscribe
Enterprise Linux Workstation Subscribe
Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-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 aborted connections, which prevents the memory for the transaction pool from being reused for other connections.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-225-1 Apache 2 vulnerability
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References
Link Providers
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-cvs/200509.mbox/%3C20051001110218.40692.qmail%40minotaur.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0159.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/16559 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/17923 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/18161 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/18333 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/18585 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015093 cve-icon cve-icon
http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=292949&view=rev cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:233 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_28_sr.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-January/msg00060.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/425399/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15762 cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/54a42d4b01968df1117cea77fc53d6beb931c0e05936ad02af93e9ac%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5df9bfb86a3b054bb985a45ff9250b0332c9ecc181eec232489e7f79%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r0276683d8e1e07153fc8642618830ac0ade85b9ae0dc7b07f63bb8fc%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2cb985de917e7da0848c440535f65a247754db8b2154a10089e4247b%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5001ecf3d6b2bdd0b732e527654248abb264f08390045d30709a92f6%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r652fc951306cdeca5a276e2021a34878a76695a9f3cfb6490b4a6840%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8828e649175df56f1f9e3919938ac7826128525426e2748f0ab62feb%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9e8622254184645bc963a1d47c5d47f6d5a36d6f080d8d2c43b2b142%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9f93cf6dde308d42a9c807784e8102600d0397f5f834890708bf6920%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rafd145ba6cd0a4ced113a5823cdaff45aeb36eb09855b216401c66d6%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/reb542d2038e9c331506e0cbff881b47e40fbe2bd93ff00979e60cdf7%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf6449464fd8b7437704c55f88361b66f12d5b5f90bcce66af4be4ba9%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2970 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10043 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-2970 cve-icon
https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-225-1/ cve-icon cve-icon
History

No history.

Projects

Sign in to view the affected projects.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T22:53:30.224Z

Reserved: 2005-09-19T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2005-2970

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2005-10-25T17:06:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2005-2970

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2005-10-25T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2005-2970 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses