CVE-2005-2970 describes a memory leak vulnerability in the worker MPM of Apache 2, specifically affecting products from Apache, Canonical, Fedora Project, and Red Hat. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service by causing memory consumption through aborted connections, preventing the reuse of transaction pool memory. With a CVSS score of 5.0, it is considered a medium severity vulnerability, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, leading to a potential impact of partial availability loss. Despite its age, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 2.0.36, < 2.0.55CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:apache:http_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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