CVE-2003-0254 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.0 Published Updated

Attackers can cause a denial of service via CPU consumption on IPv6 hosts when the FTP proxy fails to create a socket.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2003-0254?

CVE-2003-0254 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apache Http Server, published on 10 Jul 2003. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Apache 2 before 2.0.47, when running on an IPv6 host, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption by infinite loop) when the FTP proxy server fails to create an IPv6 socket.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2003-0254?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Apache Http Server.

How do I fix CVE-2003-0254?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2003-0254 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2003-0254 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2003-0254, GHSA-mq68-g7rr-6m25.

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