CVE-2005-2970

high

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.

References

Advisories
More

https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-225-1/

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10043

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15762

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/425399/100/0/threaded

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-January/msg00060.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0159.html

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf6449464fd8b7437704c55f88361b66f12d5b5f90bcce66af4be4ba9%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/reb542d2038e9c331506e0cbff881b47e40fbe2bd93ff00979e60cdf7%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rafd145ba6cd0a4ced113a5823cdaff45aeb36eb09855b216401c66d6%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9f93cf6dde308d42a9c807784e8102600d0397f5f834890708bf6920%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9e8622254184645bc963a1d47c5d47f6d5a36d6f080d8d2c43b2b142%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8828e649175df56f1f9e3919938ac7826128525426e2748f0ab62feb%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r652fc951306cdeca5a276e2021a34878a76695a9f3cfb6490b4a6840%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5001ecf3d6b2bdd0b732e527654248abb264f08390045d30709a92f6%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2cb985de917e7da0848c440535f65a247754db8b2154a10089e4247b%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r0276683d8e1e07153fc8642618830ac0ade85b9ae0dc7b07f63bb8fc%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5df9bfb86a3b054bb985a45ff9250b0332c9ecc181eec232489e7f79%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/54a42d4b01968df1117cea77fc53d6beb931c0e05936ad02af93e9ac%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2005-2970

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_28_sr.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:233

http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=292949&view=rev

http://securitytracker.com/id?1015093

http://secunia.com/advisories/18585

http://secunia.com/advisories/18333

http://secunia.com/advisories/18161

http://secunia.com/advisories/17923

http://secunia.com/advisories/16559

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-cvs/200509.mbox/%3C20051001110218.40692.qmail%40minotaur.apache.org%3E

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2005-10-25

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.08033