CVE-2005-2970 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2005-2970?

CVE-2005-2970 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apache Http Server, published on 25 Oct 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-770

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-2970?

It affects 6 products.

Products include Apache Http Server, Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora Core, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server, Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation.

How do I fix CVE-2005-2970?

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-2005-2970 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-2970 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2005-2970, GHSA-q8m3-9hrv-x6fg.