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<glsa id="200508-15">
  <title>Apache 2.0: Denial of Service vulnerability</title>
  <synopsis>
    A bug in Apache may allow a remote attacker to perform a Denial of Service
    attack.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">apache</product>
  <announced>2005-08-25</announced>
  <revised count="03">2007-12-30</revised>
  <bug>102991</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="www-servers/apache" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.0.54-r9</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="lt">2.0</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.0.54-r9</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    The Apache HTTP Server Project is a featureful, freely-available HTTP
    (Web) server.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Filip Sneppe discovered that Apache improperly handles byterange
    requests to CGI scripts.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker may access vulnerable scripts in a malicious way,
    exhausting all RAM and swap space on the server, resulting in a Denial
    of Service of the Apache server.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All apache users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=www-servers/apache-2.0.54-r9"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29962">ASF Bugzilla Bug 29962</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-2728">CVE-2005-2728</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2005-08-22T07:26:08Z">
    DerCorny
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2005-08-22T07:47:26Z">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2005-08-24T00:58:46Z">
    adir
  </metadata>
</glsa>
