Description
mod_cgi in Apache 2.0.39 and 2.0.40 allows local users and possibly remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang and memory consumption) by causing a CGI script to send a large amount of data to stderr, which results in a read/write deadlock between httpd and the CGI script.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1007823 ↗
- http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2002/Sep/0253.html ↗
- http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/httpd-2.0/modules/generators/mod_cgi.c?r1=1.148.2.7&r2=1.148.2.8 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8725 ↗
- http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10515 ↗
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10200.php ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5787 ↗
- http://marc.info/?l=apache-httpd-dev&m=103291952019514&w=2 ↗
- http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22030 ↗