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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2004-0174

Original release date:05/04/2004

Last revised:09/10/2008

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Static Link: http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2004-0174

Overview

Apache 1.4.x before 1.3.30, and 2.0.x before 2.0.49, when using multiple listening sockets on certain platforms, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (blocked new connections) via a "short-lived connection on a rarely-accessed listening socket."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:5.0 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 2.9

Exploitability Subscore: 10.0

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable

Access Complexity: Low

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Apache (07/02/2008): Fixed in Apache HTTP Server 2.0.49, and 1.3.31: http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_20.html http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_13.html
Official Statement from Red Hat (08/30/2006): Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect Linux.

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#132110

Name: VU#132110

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/132110

External Source: XF

Name: apache-socket-starvation-dos(15540)

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/15540

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2004:405

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-405.html

External Source: TRUSTIX