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Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2005-2970

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.

Products
apache2
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
2.0.55-1
CVEs
CVE-2005-2970
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
31 Oct 2026, 20:41 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2005-2970

core-osv · Original source

Published 25 Oct 2005, 17:06 UTC

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.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2005-2970

apache2

Fixed versions: 2.0.55-1

apache2

Fixed versions: 2.0.55-1

apache2

Fixed versions: 2.0.55-1

Complete source record
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