Overview
A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in Apache mod_dav.
Description
mod_dav is an Apache module. This module enables Apache web servers to provide users the ability to edit and manage files on a remote web server using the HTTP protocol. A vulnerability in mod_dav may allow an attacker to kill a child process. This may cause Apache to use excessive resources in a preforked multi-processing module. |
Impact
An attacker may be able to consume excessive CPU resources on the target web server. |
Solution
Upgrade to Apache 2.0.42. |
Vendor Information
406121
CVSS Metrics
| Group | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|
| Base | ||
| Temporal | ||
| Environmental |
References
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Mark Cox for helping us to understand this vulnerability.
This document was written by Ian A Finlay.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | None |
| Severity Metric: | 5.40 |
| Date Public: | 2002-09-25 |
| Date First Published: | 2002-09-26 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2003-05-30 17:14 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 3 |