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CVE-2005-2970

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2005-10-25 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Canonical Ubuntu LinuxApache Http ServerRedhat Enterprise Linux WorkstationRedhat Enterprise Linux DesktopRedhat Enterprise Linux ServerFedoraproject Fedora Core

Weakness Type

CWE-770

References