CVE-2005-2970

NameCVE-2005-2970
DescriptionMemory 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs340337

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
apache2 (PTS)bullseye2.4.62-1~deb11u1fixed
bullseye (security)2.4.62-1~deb11u2fixed
bookworm, bookworm (security)2.4.62-1~deb12u2fixed
sid, trixie2.4.62-3fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
apache2sourcesarge2.0.54-5sarge2
apache2source(unstable)2.0.55-1low340337

Notes

this occurs in the binary package apache2-mpm-worker
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