CVE-2009-2699

Publication date 13 October 2009

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Unknown

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

The Solaris pollset feature in the Event Port backend in poll/unix/port.c in the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library before 1.3.9, as used in the Apache HTTP Server before 2.2.14 and other products, does not properly handle errors, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon hang) via unspecified HTTP requests, related to the prefork and event MPMs.

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Status

No maintained releases are affected by this CVE.

Package Ubuntu Release Status
apr 9.04 jaunty
Not affected
8.10 intrepid
Not affected
8.04 LTS hardy
Not affected
6.06 LTS dapper Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

does not affect Linux

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H