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CVE-2002-0839

HIGH CVSS: 7.2 Published: 2002-10-11 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The shared memory scoreboard in the HTTP daemon for Apache 1.3.x before 1.3.27 allows any user running as the Apache UID to send a SIGUSR1 signal to any process as root, resulting in a denial of service (process kill) or possibly other behaviors that would not normally be allowed, by modifying the parent[].pid and parent[].last_rtime segments in the scoreboard.

Affected Platforms

Debian Debian LinuxApache Http Server

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-noinfo

References