CVE-2005-2970 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2005-2970 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 132728 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2005:028, published Fri, 02 Dec 2005 15:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 01:57:31 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:42 2025